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Re: syntax-table for info
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martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: syntax-table for info |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:58:16 +0100 |
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>>Interesting. It might be a bit harder in this case though, because you can
>>have an apostrophe at the end of a word, e.g, "two mens' sons", meaning the
>>sons of two men. So you would also have to check for an apostrophe at the
>>start of the word.
>
>
> .. or a back-quote, as in `kill-word' -- but what about `can't' ?.
Still possible - you usually don't have a word with two apostrophes in
it, hence the leading backquote (which could be also an apostrophe) and
the trailing apostrophe are dropped. You can do that with `mens'' too.
- syntax-table for info, Nick Roberts, 2007/03/06
- Re: syntax-table for info, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/06
- Re: syntax-table for info, Nick Roberts, 2007/03/06
- Re: syntax-table for info, Kim F. Storm, 2007/03/07
- Re: syntax-table for info, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/07
- Re: syntax-table for info, Stefan Monnier, 2007/03/07
- Re: syntax-table for info, Nick Roberts, 2007/03/07
- Re: syntax-table for info, Kim F. Storm, 2007/03/08
- Re: syntax-table for info,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: syntax-table for info, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/08