Re: making curly apostrophe part of a word

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

On 9/6/13 4:37 AM, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Am 06.09.2013 11:58, schrieb Eric Abrahamsen:
>> 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'.
>
> It affects the current buffer only, not the mode in other buffers when done that
> way - maybe that's it?

Not according to its doc string:

	The syntax is changed only for table SYNTAX-TABLE, which defaults to
	 the current buffer's syntax table.

Different buffers in the same major mode usually share the same syntax table.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA