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bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of


From: Noam Postavsky
Subject: bug#30815: 26.0.91; unicode right single quote mark with syntax entry of w not respected by forward-word
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:24:46 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux)

Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you for the pointer. FWIW, I checked the docs of forward-word
> which only talks about buffer syntax tables. Perhaps that should
> either reference the Word Motion docs or it should also describe the
> whole picture.

I think leaving the whole picture to the manual makes more sense.

Attachment: 0001-Improve-word-motion-docs-Bug-30815.patch
Description: patch

> Also, as I understand the thread it seems like this is "by design" and
> there's no good/accepted way to get it to behave as I want without
> risking breaking unknown things.

Well, just taking the syntax entry as the sole source of truth and
ignoring the character script is probably the wrong thing.  

Maybe there is some other way to get the wanted behaviour though.  I
also found Bug#13129 asking about this.

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