Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 6827370: Skip past `#' to find BEG

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/09/2015 07:05 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> In text mode, for example, the single quote has syntax "w p", which
> means that it's half-way between a word constituent and a prefix char.
> More specifically, when at the beginning/end of a word, it's not
> considered as part of the word, but it can appear in the middle of
> a word.
> This makes capitalize work correctly for things like:
>
>     i can't believe he said 'hello' !

Thanks. Looking at it now, maybe the same use case could've been better 
served by a syntax-propertize-function.

Regarding a backward-prefix-chars counterpart, maybe 
skip-syntax-forward/backward could be taught to read modifiers from its 
first argument as well.