Re: Error in SQL parsing?

[Alex Schroeder]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> Compared to RMS' proposal and to the current situation it has the
> advantage of making it easier for the user to choose (she doesn't
> need to know about modify-syntax-entry.  We could even make it a
> defcustom).

We can do that if people start pestering me about it in the sql-mode
mailing list.  But this has simply been a non-issue.  :)
I therefore suggest the appended trivial patch.

Alex.


2001-11-05  Alex Schroeder  <kensanata@yahoo.com>

        * sql.el (sql-mode-syntax-table): The backslash is no longer an
        escape character.

Index: sql.el
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diff -c -r1.71 sql.el
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--- sql.el      2001/11/05 20:58:29
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  ;; Author: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
  ;; Maintainer: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
! ;; Version: 1.6.3
  ;; Keywords: comm languages processes
  ;; URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SqlMode
  
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  ;; Author: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
  ;; Maintainer: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
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  ;; URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SqlMode
  
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      (modify-syntax-entry ?\f "> b" table)
      ;; single quotes (') quotes delimit strings
      (modify-syntax-entry ?' "\"" table)
+     ;; backslash is no escape character
+     (modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "." table)
      table)
    "Syntax table used in `sql-mode' and `sql-interactive-mode'.")