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authorDaniel Koning <dk@danielkoning.com>2020-06-22 19:03:20 -0500
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-07-04 10:55:42 +0300
commit32b3856f850e1721b3be23b50f4b90f9f59fee8a (patch)
tree55cd5b84183f97a0a18dfea3877d65615af2f7e3
parent5d1bac0ac951e25d0b0b39a9919f13053162d5df (diff)
downloademacs-32b3856f850e1721b3be23b50f4b90f9f59fee8a.tar.gz
Use 'emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table' for reading Lisp expressions
* lisp/simple.el (read--expression): Set syntax table to 'emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table' when reading a Lisp expression from the minibuffer. (Bug#41781) Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
-rw-r--r--lisp/simple.el7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index a28d10fd4a5..2f92238e640 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -1622,8 +1622,11 @@ display the result of expression evaluation."
(let ((minibuffer-completing-symbol t))
(minibuffer-with-setup-hook
(lambda ()
- ;; FIXME: call emacs-lisp-mode (see also
- ;; `eldoc--eval-expression-setup')?
+ ;; FIXME: instead of just applying the syntax table, maybe
+ ;; use a special major mode tailored to reading Lisp
+ ;; expressions from the minibuffer? (`emacs-lisp-mode'
+ ;; doesn't preserve the necessary keybindings.)
+ (set-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table)
(add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions
#'elisp-completion-at-point nil t)
(run-hooks 'eval-expression-minibuffer-setup-hook))