From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 3395@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:15:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1EAAAA.9030706@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43B19EE291914BCFA51EC5AFA8C91ADB@us.oracle.com>
> A colon is a symbol consituent. A command that picks up the symbol at
> point will conveniently pick up the variable etc. name, but it will
> also include the colon (assuming that it correctly respects Lisp
> symbol syntax), which is incorrect.
Maybe we should improve or expand the regexp of `variable-at-point'
"\\`\\W*\\(.*?\\)\\W*\\'"
to strip _any_ symbol characters surrounding a word-bounded substring at
point. Or add yet another condition with a laxer regexp.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 23:38 bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name Drew Adams
2009-05-26 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 15:15 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2009-05-28 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 15:43 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 17:11 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 18:24 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-28 20:40 ` martin rudalics
2009-05-28 20:57 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 16:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-11 17:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 17:19 ` Drew Adams
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