On Wed, Feb 16 2022, Rudolf Adamkovič wrote:

> Repro steps:
>
> 1. C-h v
> 2. notmuch-search-result-format
> 3. RET
>
> See:
>
> For example:
>     (setq notmuch-search-result-format
>           ’(("authors" . "%-40s")
>             ("subject" . "%s")))
>
> The quote ’ needs changed to ', otherwise the example does not work.

The code in question in notmuch.el is:

    (setq notmuch-search-result-format
          '((\"authors\" . \"%-40s\")
            (\"subject\" . \"%s\")))

In this particular case it is unfortunate emacs modifies the output.

Tried to chage that to  \'((\"autho...

did not help (also renamed the defcustom to make a new definition so
that the content would be evaluated when doing c-x c-e in buffer...)

In rstdoc.el we have (text-quoting-style 'grave) to not do such docstring
modifications for display, but that is not applicable in this context...

Tomi

>
> Rudy
> -- 
> "Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies."
> -- Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1969
>
> Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com> [he/him]
> Studenohorská 25
> 84103 Bratislava
> Slovakia
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