diff --git a/app-editors/emacs-vcs/metadata.xml b/app-editors/emacs-vcs/metadata.xml
index b252d01651402..ba71730703496 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs-vcs/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/emacs-vcs/metadata.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
   <flag name="wide-int">Prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit).
     This option has an effect only on architectures where "long" and
     "long long" types have different size.</flag>
-  <flag name='xwidgets'>Enable use of GTK widgets in Emacs buffers
+  <flag name="xwidgets">Enable use of GTK widgets in Emacs buffers
     (requires GTK3)</flag>
 </use>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml b/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml
index 7ed552aba66df..b3f71c734b1e6 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
   <flag name="wide-int">Prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit).
     This option has an effect only on architectures where "long" and
     "long long" types have different size.</flag>
-  <flag name='xwidgets'>Enable use of GTK widgets in Emacs buffers
+  <flag name="xwidgets">Enable use of GTK widgets in Emacs buffers
     (requires GTK3)</flag>
 </use>
 </pkgmetadata>