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bug#21939: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: bug#21939: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:15:09 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt)

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Type ‘unbound-var’ in a docstring.
> 2. Place point on the ‘v’.
> 3. Type M-: (variable-at-point t).
>
> You get 0.
>
> Now do the same thing writing `unbound-var' instead. The return value
> will be the correct symbol.

Since the markup for variables in a docstring is `', not curly quotes, I
don't think this matters.

We were playing with curly quotes in docstrings, but that got rejected
(as far as I recall).

-- 
-- Stephe





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