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

[Andreas Röhler]

On 02.08.2017 23:39, Ryan Thompson wrote:

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?

You might be interested in stuff like

ar-backward-defun

from

https://github.com/andreas-roehler/thingatpt-utils-core/blob/master/ar-subr.el

which at least enables to jump to beginning-of-defun in these cases.