Subject: bug#43265: [External] : bug#43265: 28.0.50; Inconsistent fontifying in elisp-mode

From: Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:46:46 +0100

> Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Me neither, and as Stefan said, that's a change in that behavior has
>> not been intended by my patch.
>
> Ah; thanks for confirming.  I'll change it so that special forms and
> macros are handled the same way, then.

Feel free to do so.  But I can also make an argument for the current
behavior: special forms are under our control and there aren't many, so
if they happen to be in a quoted form, it's likely that's actually code
eventually being run.  In contrast, the number of macros is
theoretically unbounded and naming is not restricted, so we can't say
anything about usage patterns of macro-named things in quoted lists.

Bye,
Tassilo