* lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el (sgml-syntax-propertize-function):

Return valid syntax-table property value when converting
quotes within text from string syntax to punctuation syntax.

Fixes: debbugs:13844

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 44109a5095f..5ce0e6b597a 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-02-28  Dale Sedivec  <dale@codefu.org>
+
+        * textmodes/sgml-mode.el (sgml-syntax-propertize-function):
+        Return valid syntax-table property value when converting
+        quotes within text from string syntax to punctuation syntax (bug#13844).
+
 2013-02-28  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
         * dired-aux.el (dired-diff): If file at point is a backup file,
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
index fb0dc84b0e1..33dfa277330 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
@@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ Any terminating `>' or `/' is not matched.")
 
 (defconst sgml-syntax-propertize-function
   (syntax-propertize-rules
-  ;; Use the `b' style of comments to avoid interference with the -- ... --
-  ;; comments recognized when `sgml-specials' includes ?-.
+   ;; Use the `b' style of comments to avoid interference with the -- ... --
+   ;; comments recognized when `sgml-specials' includes ?-.
   ;; FIXME: beware of <!--> blabla <!--> !!
    ("\\(<\\)!--" (1 "< b"))
     ("--[ \t\n]*\\(>\\)" (1 "> b"))
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Any terminating `>' or `/' is not matched.")
     ;; going to change, so as not to need to flush the data we just computed.
     ("\"" (0 (if (prog1 (zerop (car (syntax-ppss (match-beginning 0))))
                    (goto-char (match-end 0)))
-                 "."))))
+           (string-to-syntax ".")))))
   "Syntactic keywords for `sgml-mode'.")
 
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