Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Noam Postavsky <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:04:26 -0500
> Cc: Aaron Ecay <address@hidden>, Drew Adams <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> I don't think we should all of a sudden declare "letters" to mean
> just [a-zA-Z].

We don't: [:alpha:] nowadays matches much more than just [a-zA-Z].

So indeed, restricting Lisp symbols that way sounds too harsh, almost
arbitrary.