From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bounds for strings with - between subwords Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 00:49:45 +0200 Message-ID: <871raj32ba.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16220"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:npT26f6UMEouIYLUuL1dvp0fdOk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 07 00:50:56 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lempb-00047A-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 May 2021 00:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34730 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lempa-0007Fx-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 May 2021 18:50:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37074) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lemog-0007FI-IX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2021 18:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lemoc-0002QY-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2021 18:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lemoa-0002qb-9O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2021 00:49:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129533 Archived-At: steve-humphreys wrote: > I am using the following function that gets me the bounds > for each word. > > But I have strings like > > bibl-bellerive-etal-2016 > > which I want to get the bounds for strings with - > between subwords. I'm not following 100% but you can add digits and a dash to your below work if that helps? (skip-chars-forward "[:alnum:]-") > (defun alpha-bounds () > "Gets bounds of a subword unit defined by regular expression [a-zA-Z]." > (let ( ($bounds nil) $ma $mb ) > (skip-chars-backward "[:alpha:]") > (setq $ma (point)) > (skip-chars-forward "[:alpha:]") > (setq $mb (point)) > (setq $bounds (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'word)) > (cons $ma $mb) )) You can put all that in the `let' to avoid the use of `setq'. Also $bounds doesn't seem to do anything? And what's the purpose of the $? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal