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

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:35:07 +0200

> 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.