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Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:17:12 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> And in fact emacs treats the guillemets the wrong way up, the above
> message is displayed on the opening guillemet (») and not on a single
> closing one («) with a missing match.

Right.  Frenchmen disagree.  How 'bout doing the following:

   (modify-syntax-entry ?« ")»" (standard-syntax-table))
   (modify-syntax-entry ?» "(«" (standard-syntax-table))

Emacs should probably not take sides in this historic battle and just
give those chars a non-paren syntax by default.


        Stefan


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