Subject: bug#47242: eval-expression prompt should use emacs-lisp syntax-table

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:51:59 +0000

scame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> The minibuffer prompt of  eval-expression accepts an elisp expression,
> but it does not have proper syntax table setup.
>
> This should be fixed.

You don't say which Emacs version you're on, but I think this has
already been fixed in what will be Emacs 28:

https://bugs.gnu.org/41781

Use 'emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table' for reading Lisp expressions
32b3856f85 2020-07-04 10:55:42 +0300
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=32b3856f850e1721b3be23b50f4b90f9f59fee8a

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Basil