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From: compass!worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Modify syntax entry for % in mail-mode
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Date: 1 Jun 89 21:20:06 GMT
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In mail-mode, the syntax of "%" is "word", unlike "!" and "@", which
have syntax "punctuation".  This makes is hard to step through the
components of an address with M-f, etc.  The following code creates a
special mail-mode-syntax-table which defines "%" to be "punctuation".