Subject: Re: bug#13129: 24.1; Please add curly single quotes to text-mode's syntax table as word components

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:45:49 -0400

severity 30815 wishlist
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Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Moving over words like “didn’t”, Emacs stops at the curly quote; it
>> should treat it like a straight quote. (Tested also in the default
>> branch of current Bazaar.)
>
> `text-mode' does this for a straight quote in `text-mode-syntax-table':
>
>     ;; We add `p' so that M-c on 'hello' leads to 'Hello' rather than 'hello'.
>     (modify-syntax-entry ?' "w p" st)
>
> Perhaps it could also define a word syntax for the curly quote.

But it doesn't work for curly quotes, see Bug#30815 and Bug#10494.