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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: Rosen Diankov <rdiankov@cs.cmu.edu>, 703@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#703: Octave comments in emacs
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:55:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5eawef3.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > Is there a way to assign two different syntax rules for the same
> > character in emacs? Ie, one where ' is treated as a string quote
> > (and suppresses the syntax elements inside the quotes), and one
> > where it is treated as a suffix operator.
>
> Yes, there is, using the `syntax-table' property.  A common way to set
> this property is via the font-lock-syntactic-keywords variable.
>
> So all it takes is a regexp good enough to distinguish the two cases

Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:

> Octave mode has never provided syntax support for single quoted
> strings because there is no way (short of actually parsing the code)
> of telling these apart from single quotes used for transposition.

Maybe we could use a rough heuristic to handle most of the cases.  A '
character that occurs before "[=(] *" is probably the beginning of a
single quoted string, not a transpose operator.  WDYT?






             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-21 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-21 15:55 Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-08-21 18:26 ` bug#703: Octave comments in emacs Rosen Diankov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-13 22:18 Chong Yidong
2008-08-20 16:55 ` Kurt Hornik
2008-08-20 23:21   ` Rosen Diankov
2008-08-20 23:27     ` Rosen Diankov
2008-08-12  2:36 Rosen Diankov
2008-08-12 20:07 ` Rosen Diankov
2008-08-14 20:31   ` bug#703: " Stefan Monnier

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