Re: French quotes treated as parentheses

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The result is that they are wrongly highlighted with show-paren-mode on,
>     and "Mismatched parentheses" error messages appearing in the echo
>     area.  I finally managed to work around that by putting
>
>     (modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "»") "(")
>     (modify-syntax-entry (string-to-char "«") ")")
>
>     into my .emacs, but would it not be better to give the French quotes a
>     more neutral syntax (say punctuation), to not discriminate German
>     against French users?
>
> I think it would be better to set up a minor mode to switch to German
> syntax, and connect this with a language environment.

That's pretty tough, given that the German speaking Swiss tend to use
a different direction from the Germans themselves.

It is really pretty messy.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum