Re: making curly apostrophe part of a word

[Kevin Rodgers]

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.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA