I am new to the language (coming from ML) and I am sorry if my first post turns out to be a flamebait, but I can't help it: Why in the world did the designers of Haskell permit the ' character to be both a prime (part of identifiers) and the single-character quote? Didn't they realize what they were doing to would-be intelligent editors? Or were they just a bunch of rabid ed users? Has anyone found a way to deal with this in Emacs, _correctly_? That is, among other things, '(' should be ignored for sexp parsing... -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 The world has taken on a thickness of vulgarity that raises a spiritual man's contempt to the violence of a passion. Baudelaire