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I'm using a custom mode that I believe is based on cc-mode, and it's been working great for years. Recently, I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, which brought Emacs to 26.3 (I forget what it was before, maybe 25.2.2), and now, my single-quoted strings are not being highlighted correctly anymore (while double-quoted strings are working fine):

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How can I fix this?

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  • My suggestion, unless you happen to get a helpful answer here, is to contact the maintainer of that code.
    – Drew
    Jan 4, 2021 at 21:52
  • That's a fine suggestion, @Drew, thanks. I was just hoping some emacs-minded folks here could help.
    – Jeff Ward
    Jan 4, 2021 at 23:41

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Well, I didn't want to downgrade emacs for a simple formatting problem, but I suppose that's my option as I wait for a better answer.

I didn't find a repo for 20.04 with old emacs 25, so I built it from source. Here's what I did, in case you or I have to do it again:

First, remove apt-installed emacs:

sudo apt-get remove --purge emacs emacs-gtk

Download http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/gnu/emacs/emacs-25.2.tar.gz - personally I untarred it in /opt/ which may require sudo or chown

My first ./configure complained about missing support for gif, tiff, and xpm -- don't care, build without.

cd /opt/emacs-25.2
./configure --with-xpm=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
make

Finally, symlink this to /usr/bin/emacs so it's available system-wide:

sudo ln -s /opt/emacs-25.2/src/emacs /usr/bin/emacs

And voila, the formatting works again, highlighting single-or-double quoted strings the same:

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