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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: XEmacs Beta Test <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

This is related to the question of whether editing modes should bind
delete/backspace.  I feel it's evil for almost all modes to change the
syntax of ?_ to "w", since it's not consistent with other modes.

I propose that ksh-mode and cperl-mode, and probably fortan.el and
simula.el, be modified to do

(modify-syntax-entry ?_ "_")

Martin

