From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 24295@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24295: 24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:29:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shtvt3fh.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db753033-1fc9-4311-94e8-a68a61cf1618@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
[I replaced =A1=AF with ’ in the quoted text]
> In an Emacs-Lisp buffer or in *scratch*, use `C-u C-x =3D' on this
> character: ’ (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK). It tells you that its
> syntax is punctuation.
>
> But (setq foo (intern "ab’cd’ef")) shows that it acts like a
> symbol-constituent character.
In what way does it show that?? A symbol's name can be any arbitrary
string, there's no significance to the syntax class of the characters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 22:32 bug#24295: 24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent Drew Adams
2016-08-23 22:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-23 22:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-24 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-24 6:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-24 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<87inuqfyba.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
[not found] ` <<8337lufdvn.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-08-24 14:25 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-24 0:29 ` npostavs [this message]
2016-08-24 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2016-08-24 1:59 ` Drew Adams
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