GNU bug report logs - #43265
28.0.50; Inconsistent fontifying in elisp-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 20:06:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #54 received at 43265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 "43265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <43265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>,
 "maurooaranda <at> gmail.com" <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [External] : bug#43265: 28.0.50; Inconsistent fontifying in
 elisp-mode
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:59:59 -0500

> 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.

I don't see why that should be more likely for special forms than for
macros.  For many of them, which is which is largely an
arbitrary choice.


        Stefan
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