Re: Matching string-quote syntax

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 1990 13:31

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macrakis@ri.osf.fr writes:
 > GNU Emacs 18.55
 > 
 > It would occasionally be useful to have a matching string-quote syntax
 > category (as for parentheses).  This is useful, for instance, for
 > .framemif format, where strings are delimited by left-quote and
 > right-quote (`string')

If I understnad what you are asking for, you can do this using
the open-parentheses and close-parentheses syntax classes.

(modify-syntax-entry ?` "('")
(modify-syntax-entry ?' ")`")

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From: kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: Matching string-quote syntax
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Date: 26 Apr 90 13:31:44 GMT
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 14:31:44 1990

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