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I edit some files that are mostly C code but include a few special extension tokens. The tokens that give c-mode a problem are @' and @".

I essentially want c-mode to ignore these two bigrams. The current behavior is that the quote (single or double) is interpreted as the beginning of a quoted string.

I reckon this is childs play for anyone well versed in elisp syntax tables but I am not hence my appeal for your help.

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  • I don't really care how @' and @" are colorized by font-lock, as long as they do not make c-mode think the quote is the beginning of a string
    – Jonathan Cano
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 22:05
  • Also, perhaps this is more of a font-lock issue than a c-mode issue. I'm not sure.
    – Jonathan Cano
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 22:09
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    Is @ used anywhere else? I wonder if @ set to be “escape” in the syntax table would work: (modify-syntax-entry ?@ "/")
    – amitp
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 23:15
  • no, @ is not used anywhere else. I'll investigate this option
    – Jonathan Cano
    Commented Aug 2, 2016 at 16:31

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You have to put a syntax-table property on the ' and " characters, e.g.:

(defun c-propertize-@ ()
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (re-search-forward "@\\(\"\\|'\\)" nil t)
      (put-text-property (match-beginning 1)
                         (match-end 1)
                         'syntax-table
                         '(1))))) ;;= punctuation

Take a look at syntax-propertize-function, if you also want to edit these tokens.

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