[bug#35736] geiser-edit-symbol-at-point (M-.) does not work on fork+exec-command

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> skribis:

> geiser-edit-symbol-at-point (M-.) does not work on
> fork+exec-command. geiser wrongly tries to lookup fork instead of
> looking up fork+exec-command. This is because (thing-at-point 'symbol)
> does not correctly identify the whole symbol. And, that, in turn, is
> because ?+ has been reclassified as an expression prefix character (')
> in .dir-locals.el. It should be a symbol constituent character (_) which
> is the default for scheme mode.
>
> (modify-syntax-entry ?+ "'")

What about proposing this change to ‘scheme-mode’ to Emacs upstream?

Alternately, or in the meantime, we could carry that fix in Geiser
maybe?

Thoughts?

Ludo’.