Don't quote keywords, they've been self-quoting for well over a decade. 2011-01-22 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * bytecomp.el (byte-compile-setq, byte-compile-set): Remove kludge allowing keywords' values to be set, all the code that does that is gone. * cl-compat.el (elt-satisfies-test-p): * faces.el (set-face-parent): * faces.el (face-doc-string): * gtk-font-menu.el: * gtk-font-menu.el (gtk-reset-device-font-menus): * msw-font-menu.el: * msw-font-menu.el (mswindows-reset-device-font-menus): * package-get.el (package-get-installedp): * select.el (select-convert-from-image-data): * sound.el: * sound.el (load-sound-file): * x-font-menu.el (x-reset-device-font-menus-core): Don't quote keywords, they're self-quoting, and the win from backward-compatibility is sufficiently small now that the style problem overrides it.

--- a/lisp/faces.el	Sat Jan 22 17:21:22 2011 +0000
+++ b/lisp/faces.el	Sat Jan 22 23:29:25 2011 +0000
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
                              how-to-add))
         (set-difference built-in-face-specifiers
                         '(display-table background-pixmap inherit)))
-  (set-face-background-pixmap face (vector 'inherit ':face parent)
+  (set-face-background-pixmap face (vector 'inherit :face parent)
 			      locale tag-set how-to-add)
   nil)