GNU bug report logs - #57250
emacs-lisp-mode not highlighting single characters `k' in comments

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>, 57250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57250: emacs-lisp-mode not highlighting single characters `k' in comments
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:11:55 -0700

uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> But if the character sequence within tick ` and a single quote ' is a single
> character, the character does not get highlighted.
>
> Example:
>
> ;; Insert `k' for words with initial values.
>
> The character k does not get highlighted.

That's because k here is more likely to be a key than a Lisp symbol.

So I think this is expected.
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