bug#27920: 25.2; Elisp indentation breaks when function docstring matches "^("

[Ryan Thompson]

Ok, that's good to know. That page claims that Emacs "highlights confusing opening delimiters (those that ought to be quoted) in bold red", but I'm not seeing that in this case. Is there some setting to enable this, or is it likely that some other elisp package I have installed is interfering with this highlighting? Or can Emacs not catch this kind of misplaced paren in a string?

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:34 PM Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:

Ryan <rct@thompsonclan.org> schrieb am Mi., 2. Aug. 2017 um 18:57 Uhr:

When editing Emacs Lisp code, if I write a function whose docstring
contains a line beginning with an open paren, Emacs refuses to
auto-indent any line in the function body.

Emacs by default doesn't accept opening parentheses in the first column that don't start a top-level definition. See https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Left-Margin-Paren.html.