bug#74308: 30.0.92; emacs-lisp font-locking word regexp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>,  74308@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:33:55 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > merge 74308 74307
> > thanks
> >
> >> From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
> >> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:30:46 -0600
> >> 
> >> Starting from emacs -Q, put the following into a buffer with
> >> emacs-lisp-mode
> >> 
> >>   (setq foo "\\<foo\\>")
> >> 
> >> The part "foo\\" of the string "\\<foo\\>" will get
> >> font-lock-variable-name-face, which looks odd.
> >> 
> >> I believe, this is due to a clause in lisp-mode.el that says
> >> 
> >>          ;; Words inside \\[], \\<>, \\{} or \\`' tend to be for
> >>          ;; `substitute-command-keys'.
> >> 
> >> But this assumption is not always correct, in particular if ">" is
> >> preceded by "\\", which happens when constructing regexps.
> >
> > This is an exact duplicate of bug#74307 that you submitted just 2
> > minutes earlier, so I'm merging them.
> 
> I think bug#68318 is also about the same issue; it can be merged into
> this one as well.

Thanks.  Since this bug was already closed, I'm therefore closing
bug#68318 as well.