From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kevin Rodgers'" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>,
<3312@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>, <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#3312: 23.0.93; Use punctuation syntax for apostrophe in Info
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 08:59:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001c9d708$7d2cad80$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gup88h$ed8$1@ger.gmane.org>
> > I don't know much about text-mode, but I wonder if even
> > there it might make sense for ' to have syntax class
> > `punctuation' instead of `word'. Probably the answer
> > is "no", or that would already be the case. ;-)
> >
> > I see this in `text-mode.el':
> > ;; We add `p' so that M-c on 'hello' leads to 'Hello'
> > ;; rather than 'hello'.
> > (modify-syntax-entry ?' "w p" st)
> >
> > That explains why p was added, but not why ' should have
> > syntax class w at all. Again, there probably is a good
> > reason, but I don't know what it is. After changing the
> > syntax to punctuation, M-c still seems to act as desired
> > on 'hello'.
>
> FWIW, I've got this in my ~/.emacs:
>
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook
> (defun text-mode-punctuation-syntax ()
> ;; Change non-letter characters from word syntax to punctuation:
> (modify-syntax-entry ?\240 ".") ; NO-BREAK SPACE
> (modify-syntax-entry ?' "."))) ; APOSTROPHE
Yes, but I wasn't sure that the changes should also be made to text-mode itself
(dunno). For now, I was thinking of having info-mode do `copy-syntax-table' and
then modify that copy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-17 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-16 22:02 bug#3312: 23.0.93; Use punctuation syntax for apostrophe in Info Drew Adams
2009-05-17 14:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-05-17 15:59 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-05-17 18:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-05-17 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-05-17 20:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-17 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-17 20:08 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-19 0:47 ` Juri Linkov
2009-05-19 3:09 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-08 17:34 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-16 21:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-17 12:31 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-17 14:41 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-18 7:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 19:57 ` Juri Linkov
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