Fix "\`" confusion in Lisp strings

[gnu-emacs] / admin / authors.el

diff --git a/admin/authors.el b/admin/authors.el
index c7ec3bcfdd6231a0d1cafadedde9002bb1ec8535..547e046a8d7e899cde2f3b1157baa685ee09b00b 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/authors.el
+++ b/admin/authors.el
@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ it is found in `authors-fixed-case'."
          (setq regexps (cdr regexps))))))
   (when author
     (setq author (replace-regexp-in-string "[ \t]*[(<].*$" "" author))
-    (setq author (replace-regexp-in-string "\`[ \t]+" "" author))
+    (setq author (replace-regexp-in-string "\\`[ \t]+" "" author))
     (setq author (replace-regexp-in-string "[ \t]+$" "" author))
     (setq author (replace-regexp-in-string "[ \t]+" " " author))
     (unless (string-match "[-, \t]" author)