Re: making curly apostrophe part of a word

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 06.09.2013 11:58, schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
>> Am 06.09.2013 04:47, schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
>>> In certain modes (actually just certain files) I'd like the `’'
>>> character to be treated the same as a `'' character with respect to word
>>> movement: ie I'd like M-f to skip over the entirety of both "don't" and
>>> "don’t". I'm editing externally-created files, and don't have the
>>> liberty of changing this.
>>>
>>> I thought this would do it:
>>>
>>> (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w")
>>>
>>
>> Works for me in current buffer. `forward-word' passes as expected.
>> Which command fails for you?
>
> `forward-word' fails... Hang on, I'll do the emacs -Q dance and see
> what's going on. This was originally in an html-mode buffer, but I don't
> see why that would matter as long as no third argument was passed to
> `modify-syntax-entry'.
>
> Thanks,
> E
>
>
>

It affects the current buffer only, not the mode in other buffers when done that way - maybe that's it?

Cheers