Subject: Re: bug#22238: 25.0.50; isearch symbol search can't find ,@symbol

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:54:04 +0100

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 12/26/2015 12:06 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> But @foo is a valid symbol.
>
> Indeed. If you like to implement the syntax-propertize-function that will
> distinguish between them, be my guest.
>
> But it's more important to discern "symbol" in ,@symbol than support
> symbols with rare names like that.

Such symbols are used by Emacs, so they should be properly supported.
There is no point in supporting ,@foo but not @foo, since the method
will be the same.

Andreas.

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