From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 10494@debbugs.gnu.org, aaronecay@gmail.com
Subject: bug#10494: 24.0.92; Syntax table and non-ASCII character interaction
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 17:55:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r39sd8h9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shu8d9kb.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 13 Aug 2016 17:31:48 +0300)
> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 17:31:48 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 10494@debbugs.gnu.org, aaronecay@gmail.com
>
> > From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
> > Cc: 10494@debbugs.gnu.org, aaronecay@gmail.com
> > Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:19:34 -0400
> >
> > >> (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w" text-mode-syntax-table)
> > >> (defconst my-text-char-script-table
> > >> (let ((table (copy-sequence char-script-table)))
> > >> (aset table ?’ 'latin)
> > >> table))
> > >>
> > >> (defun my-text-mode-hook ()
> > >> (set (make-local-variable 'char-script-table)
> > >> my-text-char-script-table))
> > >> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'my-text-mode-hook)
> > >
> > > Are you sure nothing in text-mode will ever want to use \s_ in any
> > > regexp?
> >
> > Did you mean \> (word boundary) or \s. (punctation)? \s_ doesn't match
> > ’ regardless because its syntax class is punctuation, not symbol.
>
> Sorry, I guess I was thinking of \cl. It will not match ’, although
> it might be expected.
>
> Anyway, my point is that these char-tables should really be treated as
> read-only by Lisp applications.
Btw, some believe that using ’ as an apostrophe is wrong. They say
U+02BC should be used instead; see, for example, this discussion:
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m06/0047.html
That character already is word-constituent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-13 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 8:40 bug#10494: 24.0.92; Syntax table and non-ASCII character interaction Aaron Ecay
2012-01-13 10:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-01-13 17:04 ` Aaron Ecay
2016-08-11 0:29 ` npostavs
2016-08-11 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-12 22:37 ` npostavs
2016-08-13 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-13 13:21 ` npostavs
2016-08-13 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-13 14:19 ` npostavs
2016-08-13 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-13 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-13 18:14 ` npostavs
2016-08-13 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-13 21:42 ` npostavs
2016-08-14 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-14 2:58 ` npostavs
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