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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: set-syntax problem
Message-ID: <7063@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 89 07:07:40 GMT
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Ok, I give up. This is the problem (in GNU 18.52):

a-long-lisp-name-with-lots-of-hyphens another-hyphenated-name

So how do I transpose these two variables? If I use M-x transpose-word,
or M-x transpose-sexp, I wind up with:

a-long-lisp-name-with-lots-of-another hyphens-hyphenated-name

My theory is that the syntax table doesn't think of "-" as a word, so
I tried M-x modify-syntax-entry RET - RET "w" and I also tried "w ", but
it has no effect. I do this while in the lisp buffer, so it should work.
It doesn't. How to do it? That's the question.

-Eliot
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