From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to redefine Parantheses? Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:15:23 +0200 Organization: nil Message-ID: <46195b6b$0$23139$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> References: <57rjbgF2eksvjU1@mid.individual.net> <4618b74e$0$23142$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Reply-To: angeli@caeruleus.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176068248 31194 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2007 21:37:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:37:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 23:36:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Haf3r-0003HU-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:36:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Haf7b-00077V-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.n-ix.net!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OnBa6wJJieIp4y9idjfcEVK9svU= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Apr 2007 23:15:23 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9c446a94.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=:S\BH3YbS1Po_QK:San392BQYIaSbiD\SojI5:1jmgbZUUAK@oLn^QlIC8JXHGn Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146886 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42490 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii (2007-04-08) writes: >> From: Ralf Angeli >> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:35:08 +0200 >> >> >> I need German quotation marks « and » (ISO 8859 -1 Latin-1 171 and 187). >> >> Alas, Emacs treats them as parantheses, which is sometimes disturbing. Is >> >> there a way I could redefine what Emacs considers parantheses in order to >> >> have those quotation marks treated as normal text? >> > >> > You need to change the syntax class of those characters. >> >> No, the default syntax in Emacs has to be changed. > > ???? Well, the default syntax is obviously wrong since you cannot rely on guillemets being used parenthetical in a certain order. -- Ralf