From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the use of "categories"?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:25:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhx95hnj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ekdmyfw.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:30:59 +0200)
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:30:59 +0200
>
> I found out about "categories" today - see (info "(elisp) Categories").
> What is the use of them? I noticed that filling functions use them
> (which makes sense), is there anything else in stock Emacs or packages
> that does?
You can use categories in regular expressions, via the \c escape.
This could allow you, for example, to find Katakana characters, or
characters that are consonants.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-26 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-26 6:30 What is the use of "categories"? Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-26 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-08-27 18:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-30 2:47 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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