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bug#43265: 28.0.50; Inconsistent fontifying in elisp-mode


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#43265: 28.0.50; Inconsistent fontifying in elisp-mode
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:16:33 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Before this, special forms and macros were handled in the same way, but
>> the commit message doesn't really explain why this was changed.
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-03/msg00327.html

Skimming that thread, I can't see any explanation for why we don't check
that special forms are in a function position, while we do that for
macros?

I.e.,

(setq a '(if a b))

is currently fontified incorrectly, while

(setq a '(when a b))

is fontified correctly.

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