Re: syntax-table for info

[Nick Roberts]

 >     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'.
         ^

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


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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob