From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to redefine Parantheses? Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:37:36 +0200 Organization: nil Message-ID: <461a79e0$0$20296$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> References: <57rjbgF2eksvjU1@mid.individual.net> <4618b74e$0$23142$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <46195b6b$0$23139$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <461a003b$0$23145$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Reply-To: angeli@caeruleus.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176146241 20249 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 19:17:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:17:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 21:16:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HayjA-0005zN-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hayn0-0001HQ-Se for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gThDNG//jCjJqLzygcsW+qGTwRQ= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Apr 2007 19:37:36 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a9dd5f20.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=4f8Y7oQ15G5; ]cDoEWD6A4McF=Q^Z^V384Fo<]lROoR1Fl8W>\BH3Y2Wlc02QWR^5?392BQYIaSb9D\SojI5:1j=7? List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42527 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii (2007-04-09) writes: >> From: Ralf Angeli >> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:58:35 +0200 >> >> I really don't understand why the default syntax in Emacs is paren >> syntax. > > Because Emacs currently cannot distinguish between different usage of > the same character in different languages, and even your research > indicates that the current behavior is correct in 50% of cases. > >> But I don't think is a customization issue but a bug in Emacs. > > Not a bug, a missing feature. Even with that feature missing one could get 100% correct behavior by giving guillemets punctuation syntax. You may give the problem a different name, but changing the default syntax is ceteris paribus still the better option. -- Ralf