From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: making curly apostrophe part of a word
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:58:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwnq9sq5.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5229A58D.7080600@easy-emacs.de
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 2:47 making curly apostrophe part of a word Eric Abrahamsen
2013-09-06 9:51 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-06 9:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2013-09-06 10:37 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-11 3:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-09-11 6:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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