From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64739@debbugs.gnu.org, Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in>
Subject: bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:28:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7k54ff6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831qh33x46.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:39:21 +0300")
On Thu, Jul 20 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> forward-word doesn't seem to be the correct forward-op for numbers.
>
> That depends on the buffer's syntax table, though.
I am frequently running into similar problems when I deal with numbers,
but the syntax table is not designed for this. Would it make sense if
(forward-thing 'number) temporarily used a customized synatx table?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-21 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-20 6:19 bug#64739: (forward-thing 'number) doesn't work with decimal numbers Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-20 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:28 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2023-07-21 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 14:14 ` Roland Winkler
2023-07-21 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23 3:36 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-23 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23 19:03 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-24 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-26 12:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-29 23:01 ` Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-22 0:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
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