From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support find-tag in Info-mode
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:45:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6fns9do.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EY5Lf-0006nd-NV@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:27:31 -0500")
> Try to use M-. on `foo' in Info-mode and you get the error,
> "Can't find tag foo'.
>
> I have little experience with syntax entries, but the following
> fixes find-tag at the expense of losing the ability to consider
> a contraction as part of the same word:
>
> (add-hook 'Info-mode-hook
> '(lambda ()
> (modify-syntax-entry ?' "' ")))
>
> This would make M-f and M-b work badly, so it certainly is not a good
> idea.
It makes M-f and M-b work badly only for contractions like "it's", "don't".
But in Info manuals apostrophes are no less frequently used as a right
single quotation mark. Since contractions are rare on word boundaries
in English, then what about treating ' as part of the same word only
when both its adjacent characters have word syntax?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-05 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-03 19:06 Support find-tag in Info-mode Bill Wohler
2005-11-04 17:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-05 9:45 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-11-05 23:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
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