From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:31:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87poadx0ur.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506418337 4129 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 09:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:32:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 11:32:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmDp-0000Ub-4w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmDw-0005Aa-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmDP-0005AG-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:31:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmDM-0003lT-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58765 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmDL-0003kz-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:31:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmD5-0006KV-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:31:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nkZeIrCFbrjZiZzUWgl+b1WFUl4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114409 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> Hello, I have some inherited code where the >> style used was to squeeze every single >> non-required white-space. There are long >> lists of comma-separated values with any >> spaces on them, rendering the code very >> difficult to read. >> >> I wanted to have something like glasses-mode, >> but unless I am mistaken, it is not very >> configurable, so I cannot add new cases as >> commas separated by spaces, which is mine. >> >> Then I thought of overlays, but the manual >> says that if there are a big number of >> substitutions, maybe it could be a better >> idea to use text properties instead. >> >> So, from the top of your head, what would be >> the less painful method to change every comma >> to a comma+space, or at least change the >> color of the commas to anything more >> distinguishable and attach it to the language >> mode hook? > > ... you mean in code that is already written? > > Do it by hand, or use `replace-regexp'. > > (replace-regexp "," ", ") Yes, it is already written. The point is not modifying the code, as in glasses-mode style, so replace-regexp is not a solution. Thanks anyway! -- Alberto