From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to redefine Parantheses? Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:16:34 +0300 Message-ID: References: <57rjbgF2eksvjU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176020271 26001 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2007 08:17:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:17:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 08 10:17:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HaSaA-0005yN-E7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaSdq-0003oH-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaSdW-0003mh-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:20:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaSdT-0003jg-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaSdT-0003jA-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaSZl-0006z6-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-23-78.inter.net.il [80.230.23.78]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HNY93147 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:16:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <57rjbgF2eksvjU1@mid.individual.net> (paul.batt@gmx.net) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42479 Archived-At: > From: "Paul Batt" > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 09:19:12 +0200 > > I need German quotation marks « and » (ISO 8859 -1 Latin-1 171 and 187). > Alas, Emacs treats them as parantheses, which is sometimes disturbing. Is > there a way I could redefine what Emacs considers parantheses in order to > have those quotation marks treated as normal text? You need to change the syntax class of those characters. See the documentation of char-syntax and modify-syntax-entry.