From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Old-style backquotes in cc-vars.el
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:26:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk5r54x09.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850709041944k18cb6243w6ffe991f49112b36@mail.gmail.com> (dhruva's message of "Wed\, 5 Sep 2007 08\:14\:48 +0530")
>> If I do write them, I'll be sure to contribute them. On the
>> selfish end, I've already fixed my code that needed the fixing,
>> so the motivation to write the code is not high at present.
>>
>> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
Richard> It would be nice to have a couple of utility
Richard> edit functions that turns old-style backquotes to
Richard> new-style backquotes.
Richard>
Richard> Would you like to write them?
> If someone can point me to the complete definition of old and new
> style (and variants if any), I will try to develop a tool to do the
> conversion automatically. I have done a bit of parsing related work
> and feel I can do it.
I did it with a macro that did something like:
C-u C-s ([`,]@? C-SPC M-x up-list RET DEL C-u C-SPC C-d C-SPC C-M-u C-d
C-u C-SPC
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 20:51 Old-style backquotes in cc-vars.el Stefan Monnier
2007-09-01 10:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-09-03 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-04 3:14 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-04 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05 2:21 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-05 2:44 ` dhruva
2007-09-05 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-09-05 20:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-06 14:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-07 6:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-05 13:29 ` T. V. Raman
2007-10-06 16:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-10-06 18:31 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-10-06 20:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-10-06 21:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-10-11 17:41 ` Davis Herring
2007-10-19 7:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-10-06 22:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-07 9:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-10-07 9:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-10-07 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-07 13:10 ` Richard Stallman
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