Subject: bug#43909: 26.1; read syntax breaks prettify-symbols

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:04:52 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> I'm guessing that your mail software has destroyed the code example, and
> that it was supposed to be:
>
> (setq-default prettify-symbols-alist '(("lambda" . 955)))
> (prettify-symbols-mode 0)
> (prettify-symbols-mode 1)
> lambda
> ?\"
> lambda

I also tried this with emacs-26.1 (in *scratch*) and saw nothing
unexpected.  A recipe for emacs -Q and an explanation of what
"interfere" exactly means would be nice @marmot-te.

Michael.