Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
>> Cc: 10494@debbugs.gnu.org,  aaronecay@gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:37:56 -0400
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Indeed.  This is a feature:
>> 
>> Ah, so doing
>> 
>>     (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w" text-mode-syntax-table)
>>     (aset char-script-table ?’ 'latin)
>> 
>> does let word motion skip over ’ as OP wanted.
>
> Yes.  But I don't recommend such a "solution", because that would most
> probably bite elsewhere, when we do want that character behave as a
> symbol.

Sure, but it could be made local to text-mode:

    (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)

>
>> `(elisp) Word Motion' looks like a good place for it:
>
> Right, thanks.
>
>>    The functions for parsing words described below use the syntax table
>> -to decide whether a given character is part of a word.  @xref{Syntax
>> -Tables}.
>> +and @code{char-script-table} to decide whether a given character is
>> +part of a word.  @xref{Syntax Tables} and @xref{Character Properties}.
>
> @xref generates a capitalized "See", so is inappropriate in the middle
> of a sentence.  Please use "see @ref" instead.

Uff, I find these multiple variants of reference very confusing, I also
got a complaint from makeinfo that I was missing punctuation after the
first @xref.  Does it look okay now? (I made the other wording fixes
too)