Re: syntax-table for info

[Kim F. Storm]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

>  >     Frequently when I want to search for a another occurrence of a word I
>  >     type C-s C-s but this picks up the apostrophe (') at the end of the
>  >     word.  It would make things easier if the syntax table in Info was
>  >     modified so that the apostrophe was regarded as punctuation rather than
>  >     word.
>  > 
>  > The reason ' is treated as part of a word is for the sake of M-f.
>  > I don't think we should change that.
>  > 
>  > I do not understand what you mean by "picks up the apostrophe at the
>  > end of the word".
>
> I mean if you're looking at:
>
> `C-k'
>      Kill to the end of the line (`kill-line').
>
> and you want to see if the manual says anything else about kill-line.  Then
> putting the cursor on the last k and doing C-s C-s makes i-search search for
> kill-line'.
>          ^

Likewise, if you position the cursor there, and does M-x lgrep to grep for
all occurrence of kill-line, the default grep pattern also includes the
terminating '.  I've been annoyed by that many times.

> I guess I never use M-f, but I notice that the help buffer treats apostrophes
> as punctuation.

I can see that this is useful to skip words like "don't" .. but in the
special case of `...' it is clearly the wrong thing to do.

But this is not the time to fix this.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk