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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Low level trickery for changing character syntax?
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:12:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppkqhcjp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvwqeywtxd.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Is it possible to redefine characters "^", "$" and "*" in a syntax-table
>> in such a way that the same hardcoded regexp, e.g.
>
> No.  Syntax-tables have no influence on those regexp elements.
> They only affect things like \<, \>, \_<, \_>, \sC, \Sc and some character
> ranges (like [[:word:]]).

Ok, thanks, then I will try to improve the things I'm working on and
then give it a try with the Org maintainers, hoping that the gains of
the required changes to Org-mode appear greater than the costs to them.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-09 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-08 17:00 Low level trickery for changing character syntax? Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-08 17:06 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-08 17:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-09  0:26   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-09  5:59 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-09  7:44   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-09  9:56     ` Andreas Röhler
2014-04-09 12:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-09 13:12       ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-04-09  7:09 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-04-09  8:52   ` Org Minor Mode (was Re: Low level trickery for changing character syntax?) Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-09 12:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-09 13:01     ` Tassilo Horn
2014-04-09 13:43       ` Thorsten Jolitz

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