From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How does one set up a syntax table for (* and //?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:19:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-8Mw1s5nTjFn4s1JyQXRxVUuZJB4FOApDP+C1YsPJGMgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d54d1cbb-8809-8c83-215e-43971d8f6107@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Clément Pit--Claudel
<clement.pit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell from the docs, the following syntax table should recognize // … line comments and nestable (* … *) comments properly:
>
> (defvar example-syntax-table
> (let ((table (make-syntax-table)))
> (modify-syntax-entry ?* ". 23" table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?/ ". 12c" table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?\n "> c" table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?\( "()1n" table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?\) ")(4n" table)
> table))
[...]
> In this example, the last line (“which incorrectly extends past the newline?”), is considered to be a comment, because the sequence "(/" is treated as a multiline comment opener.
You don't want "a" style comment chars combining with "c" style
comment chars. Unfortunately, Emacs doesn't implement that. I think
you'll have to implement these kind of comments with a
syntax-propertize-function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-12 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-11 15:44 How does one set up a syntax table for (* and //? Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-12 1:19 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-01-12 1:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-01-12 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-13 1:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
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