GNU bug report logs - #13129
24.1; Please add curly single quotes to text-mode's syntax table as word components

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 21:29:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed, notabug

Merged with 10494, 30815

Found in versions 24.0.92, 24.1, 25.1, 26.0.91

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 13129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 13129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13129: 24.1;
	Please add curly single quotes to text-mode's syntax table as word
	components
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.
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 68 days ago.

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