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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.







  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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