Upstream seems to be leaning towards "character literals really should have a backslash if they contain tricky characters" but has not (yet?) closed the bug as invalid / wontfix.
FWIW the Bug Watch Updater has incorrectly marked the upstream bug as Fix Released. This seems to be a recurring problem with Emacs bugs; see LP bug #343469 -- forward-sexp parses character literal ?; as comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs