From: Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to redefine Parantheses?
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:37:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461a79e0$0$20296$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1877.1176139102.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
* Eli Zaretskii (2007-04-09) writes:
>> From: Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net>
>> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:58:35 +0200
>>
>> I really don't understand why the default syntax in Emacs is paren
>> syntax.
>
> Because Emacs currently cannot distinguish between different usage of
> the same character in different languages, and even your research
> indicates that the current behavior is correct in 50% of cases.
>
>> But I don't think is a customization issue but a bug in Emacs.
>
> Not a bug, a missing feature.
Even with that feature missing one could get 100% correct behavior by
giving guillemets punctuation syntax. You may give the problem a
different name, but changing the default syntax is ceteris paribus
still the better option.
--
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-09 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-08 7:19 How to redefine Parantheses? Paul Batt
2007-04-08 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1835.1176020435.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-08 9:35 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-08 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1844.1176066558.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-08 21:15 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-09 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 6:22 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.1849.1176100080.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 9:20 ` Ralf Angeli
[not found] ` <mailman.1848.1176098439.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 8:58 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-09 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1877.1176139102.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 17:37 ` Ralf Angeli [this message]
2007-04-10 3:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1897.1176174905.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-10 17:35 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-10 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1921.1176233276.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-10 19:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-11 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1934.1176262700.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-11 16:53 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-11 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 16:48 ` Paul Batt
2007-04-09 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1882.1176143496.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-10 6:36 ` Paul Batt
2007-04-10 17:42 ` Ralf Angeli
2007-04-10 18:21 ` Paul Batt
2007-04-10 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1919.1176231393.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-11 10:46 ` Paul Batt
2007-04-08 11:14 ` Peter Dyballa
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