From: "Simen Heggestøyl" <simenheg@gmail.com>
To: Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: cycle-quotes.el
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:41:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760tkgam5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465185956771-399665.post@n5.nabble.com> (message from Michael Mauger on Sun, 5 Jun 2016 21:05:56 -0700 (MST))
Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com> writes:
> There are other styles of strings that could be supported. In SQL, there are
> several dialect-specific string styles. String terminators and escape
> mechanisms are dependent on string introducers and dialect. I wouldn't
> expect that you're package would support all of them, but possibly it could
> rely upon local buffer variables and mode-specific hooks to provide parsing
> and alternative support.
>
> As examples,
> SQLite: supports single quotes
> Postgres: supports single quotes, $$..$$, and $xyz$ .. $xyz$ and other
> syntaxes
> Oracle (sorry they are the 800lb gorilla when it comes to SQL): supports
> single quotes, Q'x .. x' (where x is ), ], }, or > in the terminator if the
> first x is (, [, {, or < respectively, or the same character is used in the
> start and end otherwise)
>
> The functionality you provide is useful, but making it so that mode-specific
> hooks can provide the intelligent details, while your module provides the
> engine for cycling and escaping might be a future direction.
>
> Thanks for your contribution.
Thanks for your feedback, Michael. I see now that it could be useful
to provide such hooks.
Is it OK for you if I send you some diffs for review while working on
this feature?
-- Simen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-07 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-04 11:00 [ELPA] New package: cycle-quotes.el Simen Heggestøyl
2016-06-04 11:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-04 16:24 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2016-06-04 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-05 10:51 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2016-06-06 4:05 ` Michael Mauger
2016-06-07 17:41 ` Simen Heggestøyl [this message]
2016-06-11 17:23 ` Simen Heggestøyl
2016-06-11 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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