Fontifying one char strings.

[Michael Cadilhac]

  Hello !

  In a docstring, if I have :

  "`nil' if blahblah, `t' otherwise.",

  only nil will be fontified with font-lock-constant-face.

  I'm wondering why  this should be that way,  I'm using the following
  patch without being annoyed:

*** emacs/lisp/font-lock.el     2005-10-16 17:07:12.000000000 +0200
--- emacs/lisp/font-lock.el     2005-10-16 17:07:30.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 2077,2083 ****
         ;; Words inside \\[] tend to be for `substitute-command-keys'.
         ("\\\\\\\\\\[\\(\\sw+\\)]" 1 font-lock-constant-face prepend)
         ;; Words inside `' tend to be symbol names.
!        ("`\\(\\sw\\sw+\\)'" 1 font-lock-constant-face prepend)
         ;; Constant values.
         ("\\<:\\sw+\\>" 0 font-lock-builtin-face)
         ;; ELisp and CLisp `&' keywords as types.
--- 2077,2083 ----
         ;; Words inside \\[] tend to be for `substitute-command-keys'.
         ("\\\\\\\\\\[\\(\\sw+\\)]" 1 font-lock-constant-face prepend)
         ;; Words inside `' tend to be symbol names.
!        ("`\\(\\sw+\\)'" 1 font-lock-constant-face prepend)
         ;; Constant values.
         ("\\<:\\sw+\\>" 0 font-lock-builtin-face)
         ;; ELisp and CLisp `&' keywords as types.

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