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28.0.50; forward-sexp fails on curved singlequotes

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From: "Michalis V." <mvar.40k <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: mvar <mvar.40k <at> gmail.com>, 39134 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39134: 28.0.50; forward-sexp fails on curved singlequotes
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:58:46 +0300

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Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
> Hi Michalis,
>
> don't have any idea WRT importance of this.
>
> Just thought it may work  - modifying the help-mode syntax-table should do it.
>
> Best,
>
> Andreas

hi Andreas,

Looking at the help-mode.el it wasn't very clear to me how the help-mode
syntax-table variable was actually created - there wasn't any defvar
defined but rather the syntax-table was applied inside two
defuns. Despite that "C-h v help-mode-syntax-table" would redirect 
to this line in help-mode.el

(define-derived-mode help-mode special-mode "Help"

for some cryptic reason. Anyway attached is a patch that introduces
properly the help-mode-syntax-table var which derives from the elisp one
and sets ‘’ as parens. Now forward-sexp jumps over the definitions in
the *Help* buffer as it should despite any punctuation they may contain. 

cheers,
Michalis

[help-mode.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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