Re: matching parenthesis and guillemets

[henry atts]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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))

Great! Works fine.

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

+1

>         Stefan

Thanks,
henry

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