From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Subject: French quotes treated as parentheses
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:34:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> (raw)
The French quotes (« and ») do have a `parentheses' syntax. This has a
rather negative effect in German texts, since these use _reversed_
French quotes:
Ich sagte: »Emacs ist toll!«
(I said: "Emacs is great!")
The result is that they are wrongly highlighted with show-paren-mode on,
and "Mismatched parentheses" error messages appearing in the echo
area. I finally managed to work around that by putting
(modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "»") "(")
(modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "«") ")")
into my .emacs, but would it not be better to give the French quotes a
more neutral syntax (say punctuation), to not discriminate German
against French users?
next reply other threads:[~2006-07-28 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 5:34 Sven Joachim [this message]
2006-07-28 5:56 ` French quotes treated as parentheses Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 12:27 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 17:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-29 2:23 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-29 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 2:36 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-31 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 6:08 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 8:52 ` Sven Axelsson
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 10:09 ` Yann Hodique
2006-07-29 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
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