matching parenthesis and guillemets

matching parenthesis and guillemets

[henry atts]

In text-mode when typing guillemts to indicate direct speech I always
get this message about non matching parenthesis:

`No matching parenthesis found'

Yes, I could disable it with `blink-matching-paren' or set
`show-paren-mode' to nil. But because this affects emacs' global
behaviour this is not what I want.

Why in the first place does emacs think he has to tell me about matching
or not matching guillemets - they are no braquets actually.
And in fact emacs treats the guillemets the wrong way up, the above
message is displayed on the opening guillemet (») and not on a single
closing one («) with a missing match.

henry

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Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets

[Stefan Monnier]

> And in fact emacs treats the guillemets the wrong way up, the above
> message is displayed on the opening guillemet (») and not on a single
> closing one («) with a missing match.

Right.  Frenchmen disagree.  How 'bout doing the following:

   (modify-syntax-entry ?« ")»" (standard-syntax-table))
   (modify-syntax-entry ?» "(«" (standard-syntax-table))

Emacs should probably not take sides in this historic battle and just
give those chars a non-paren syntax by default.


        Stefan

Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets

[henry atts]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> And in fact emacs treats the guillemets the wrong way up, the above
>> message is displayed on the opening guillemet (») and not on a single
>> closing one («) with a missing match.
>
> Right.  Frenchmen disagree.  How 'bout doing the following:
>
>    (modify-syntax-entry ?« ")»" (standard-syntax-table))
>    (modify-syntax-entry ?» "(«" (standard-syntax-table))

Great! Works fine.

> Emacs should probably not take sides in this historic battle and just
> give those chars a non-paren syntax by default.

+1

>         Stefan

Thanks,
henry

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Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets

[Didier Verna]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Emacs should probably not take sides in this historic battle and just
> give those chars a non-paren syntax by default.

  Or provide a french-spacing option that would take care of this,
  sentence-end-double-space, colon-double-space and whatnot.

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Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> Emacs should probably not take sides in this historic battle and just
>> give those chars a non-paren syntax by default.
>
>   Or provide a french-spacing option that would take care of this,
>   sentence-end-double-space, colon-double-space and whatnot.

And preferably, by detecting whether the text before is in French or in
English. (And similarly for other languages and typographical rules).

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