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bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word |
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Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:51:11 +0200 |
> From: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:43:08 -0700
> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>, 30815@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I wanted to change it because I started to use typo-mode:
> https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/typoel which automatically turned
> apostrophes I typed into right quotes in my org-mode files (which is
> where I had it enabled). I was ok with this, but I wanted them to
> behave like apostrophes did (not being word boundaries and all) so I
> went down this path.
>
> I have since unbound ' in that mode, so it just inserts a normal
> apostrophe. I'm aware of the "controversy" surrounding the different
> characters and, to be honest, I can't be bothered. Filing this bug was
> a light weight attempt to see if I was missing something and/or if
> this was unexpected.
>
> For right quote in particular, it's probably even more nuanced. One
> could use right quotes to close a single quoted piece of text. In
> which case, that right quote probably shouldn't be a "word" in the
> syntax table.
>
> Because of all of that, I'm totally happy just using ' like a normal
> person. I'm not an author writing manuscripts.
>
> > The next question is what other characters need this special handling,
> > and how many of them are there?
>
> I do not know. None others that I know of, but that doesn't mean much.
Well, if this is just about ’ , then we could simply change its script
to be 'latin'. But, as you say, that would get in the way with quoted
text.
> I'm happy to consider this issue resolved (I know it's closed and was
> merged into 10494) if everyone else is after the doc changes have been
> merged in.
OK, let's wait for other comments, and consider this resolved if none
come up.
Thanks.
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Aaron Jensen, 2018/03/13
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Noam Postavsky, 2018/03/13
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Aaron Jensen, 2018/03/13
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Noam Postavsky, 2018/03/13
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Aaron Jensen, 2018/03/13
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/14
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Aaron Jensen, 2018/03/14
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/14
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Noam Postavsky, 2018/03/14
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/15
- bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word, Noam Postavsky, 2018/03/16