Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Stefan Monnier]

> Indeed it's quite frequently used in Catalan.  But I believe it's always
> in the middle of a word (at least I haven't come across it elsewhere).
> Can the syntax class be a function of surrounding characters (e.g. is
> whitespace surrounding the characters)?

Sounds like the case of the ' character, then.
We handle this by giving it the syntax "w p" (in text-mode), so it's
considered as part of a word when it appears inside, but not elsewhere.

The distinction is most visible for `capitalize'.


        Stefan