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24.0.92; Syntax table and non-ASCII character interaction

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 10494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, aaronecay <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#10494: 24.0.92; Syntax table and non-ASCII character interaction
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:33:03 +0300

> From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: 10494 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  aaronecay <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 09:21:54 -0400
> 
> >>     (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w" text-mode-syntax-table)
> >>     (aset char-script-table ?’ 'latin)
> >> 
> >> does let word motion skip over ’ as OP wanted.
> >
> > Yes.  But I don't recommend such a "solution", because that would most
> > probably bite elsewhere, when we do want that character behave as a
> > symbol.
> 
> Sure, but it could be made local to text-mode:
> 
>     (modify-syntax-entry ?’ "w" text-mode-syntax-table)
>     (defconst my-text-char-script-table
>       (let ((table (copy-sequence char-script-table)))
>         (aset table ?’ 'latin)
>         table))
> 
>     (defun my-text-mode-hook ()
>       (set (make-local-variable 'char-script-table)
>            my-text-char-script-table))
>     (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'my-text-mode-hook)

Are you sure nothing in text-mode will ever want to use \s_ in any
regexp?

> > @xref generates a capitalized "See", so is inappropriate in the middle
> > of a sentence.  Please use "see @ref" instead.
> 
> Uff, I find these multiple variants of reference very confusing, I also
> got a complaint from makeinfo that I was missing punctuation after the
> first @xref.  Does it look okay now? (I made the other wording fixes
> too)

Yes, looks good, thanks.

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