Nick Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug