Re: making curly apostrophe part of a word

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Am 06.09.2013 04:47, schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
>> In certain modes (actually just certain files) I'd like the `’'
>> character to be treated the same as a `'' character with respect to word
>> movement: ie I'd like M-f to skip over the entirety of both "don't" and
>> "don’t". I'm editing externally-created files, and don't have the
>> liberty of changing this.
>>
>> I thought this would do it:
>>
>> (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w")
>>
>
> Works for me in current buffer. `forward-word' passes as expected.
> Which command fails for you?

`forward-word' fails... Hang on, I'll do the emacs -Q dance and see
what's going on. This was originally in an html-mode buffer, but I don't
see why that would matter as long as no third argument was passed to
`modify-syntax-entry'.

Thanks,
E