From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 22248@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22248: gnus-article-mode omits apostrophe from isearch string
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:48:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1s9cbqm.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9j4g0p2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:28:05 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
> Trying to put an expression like (setq var 'foo) into the isearch ring
> by moving point at its beginning and typing C-s C-w C-w C-w ...
> doesn't add apostrophe in Gnus because gnus-article-mode modifies
> syntax of ' to whitespace:
>
> (defvar gnus-article-mode-syntax-table
> (let ((table (copy-syntax-table text-mode-syntax-table)))
> ;; make M-. in article buffers work for `foo' strings
> (modify-syntax-entry ?' " " table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?` " " table)
>
> and lax-whitespace search together with isearch-yank-word-or-char
> squeeze apostrophe in a sequence of space characters.
>
> One solution is to modify syntax of ' and ` in gnus-article-mode-syntax-table
> to syntax discussed in bug#22238, i.e. not whitespace and not part
> of a symbol, still allowing M-. in article buffers work for `foo' strings,
> and allowing isearch to search in other buffers the same string yanked
> to the search ring from Gnus.
Sounds good. Could you supply a patch for doing that?
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2015-12-27 0:28 bug#22248: gnus-article-mode omits apostrophe from isearch string Juri Linkov
2016-02-07 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2017-01-26 22:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2017-01-31 16:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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