Re: word complete goes to far

[Kevin Rodgers]

Leo wrote:

> in isearch, when i use Ctrl-w to complete the search to the underlying word,
> emacs goes to far when there are quotes in voled:
>
> ig. in the text there is the quoted term 'Peter'. i place the cursor on the
> P and press Ctrl-s Ctrl-w. then emacs searches for peter' (note the single
> quote at the end!).
>
> that's not what i want.obviously i want to search just for peter.
>
> how can i tell that emacs?

This is just a guess: tell Emacs that ' is a punctuation character, not a

word constituent:

(modify-syntax-entry ?' ".   " text-mode-syntax-table)

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Kevin Rodgers