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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: how do I find out the syntactic status of a location?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:44:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873999ak5m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

I want to find out whether I am in a symbol, string, constant, comment
&c without knowing the details of the syntax of the specific mode, i.e.,
the code should work the same in, e.g., C and Lisp modes.
If font-lock is enabled, I can check that I am in a string or comment
using

    (memq (plist-get (text-properties-at (point)) 'face)
          '(font-lock-comment-face font-lock-string-face))

is there a better way?

thanks.

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-15 16:44 Sam Steingold [this message]
2012-03-15 18:53 ` how do I find out the syntactic status of a location? Davis Herring

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