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html mode sometimes fooled by apostrophe

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Message #21 received at 40844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 40844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 43941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#40844: html mode sometimes fooled by apostrophe
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:21:36 +0200

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

> I made a silly mistake (it was late and I was tired).  Here is a
> corrected version:

I can confirm that this patch solves the test cases here.

> With this patch, when any of the paired-bracket characters is followed
> by `'' in html-mode, there is indeed no string face fontification on the
> latter (and following characters).  The following function demonstrates
> this:

[...]

> I wanted to turn this function into a test, and that's what the
> commented out lines are supposed to do.  But when I uncomment these
> lines and call this function with the unpatched (i.e. current) version
> of sgml-mode-syntax-table, it still shows default face for `'' with all
> the paired-bracket characters.  Yet when I step through the function
> with Ediff, I do see some cases with font-lock-string-face.  I don't
> understand what's going on here.

Might be a timing issue, perhaps?

In any case, the patch is an improvement, so perhaps that should be
pushed anyway?

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