From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:17:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9mudowo.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k3lyw5nt.fsf@bye.fritz.box
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-13 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-13 12:34 matching parenthesis and guillemets henry atts
2013-06-13 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-06-13 18:57 ` henry atts
2013-06-13 19:23 ` Didier Verna
[not found] ` <mailman.1598.1371151440.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-13 21:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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