diff --git a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
index 8a9343b..2ff4733 100644
--- a/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
+++ b/emacs/.emacs.d/init.org
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@
   between the cursor and the closing delimiter.
 
   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
-    (setq electric-pair-skip-whitespace :chomp)
+    (setq electric-pair-skip-whitespace 'chomp)
   #+END_SRC
 
 * Reject SSL/TLS certificates that don't check out