Aloha Bastien,
Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>
>> Also, this is my first time trying to decode a syntax table, so caveat
>> emptor.
>
> Yes -- when doing C-u C-x on { in fundamental-mode I read
>
> Character code properties: customize what to show
> name: LEFT CURLY BRACKET
> old-name: OPENING CURLY BRACKET
> general-category: Ps (Punctuation, Open)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> and this is the same in org-mode, as org-mode does not modify the
> syntax of this character.
>
> So I think `{' is generally a considered a "punctuation" character
> (compare it to the `*' char, which also falls into two categories,
> "punctuation" and "other".)
Then "punctuation" has two senses, one generic and another specific. To
my mind, the emacs guideline is ambiguous unless there is some
convention about which sense is meant in this case. I guess it would be
possible to look at the code to figure this out, but I'm not well
equipped to do that.
All the best,
Tom
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Thomas S. Dye
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