Re: French quotes treated as parentheses

[Ralf Angeli]

* Sven Joachim (2006-07-28) writes:

> Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> There was an extensive discussion about this problem on the list
>> which, IIRC, did not reach a conclusion.  Maybe somebody can find it
>> in the archives.
>
> I tried to find it via the search form, but to no avail.
> Does anybody remember when that discussion was?

It was on emacs-pretest-bug.  The first message was sent on March 9th,
2005 and had the subject "character syntax fixes needed".

You can find the thread at
<URL:http://thread.gmane.org/address@hidden>.

>> FWIW, in AUCTeX we have
>> 
>>   (modify-syntax-entry ?«  "."  TeX-mode-syntax-table)
>>   (modify-syntax-entry ?»  "."  TeX-mode-syntax-table))
>
> According to the AUCTeX ChangeLog, you made this change on
> 2004-12-01.  Was the discussion around that time?

That depends on your timeframe.

-- 
Ralf