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From: andy@icom.UUCP (Andrew H. Marrinson)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Indentation Query about lisp-mode.
Message-ID: <722@icom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 15:08:55 EDT
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russell@aimmi.UUCP (Russell Ritchie):
> If I use the GNUemacs function 'indent-sexp' on the following piece of code
> I get the result shown below. It appears that the indentation strategy used
> does not recognise the special nature of '|' (or '"') in atom names.

You don't say which version of Emacs you are using, but on the version
17.64 Emacs I am running lisp-mode understands double quotes just
fine.  Near the beginning of the file lisp-mode.el the syntax table is
set up.  There should be a line (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"    ") to
make double quote work.  If it is not there you can add it.  A similar
line (modify-syntax-entry ?\| "\"    ") should get quoting for vbars.
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