From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Low level trickery for changing character syntax? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:12:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87ppkqhcjp.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lhvfzrgt.fsf@gmail.com> <5344E1A7.50900@easy-emacs.de> <87d2grhrq0.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397049103 3186 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2014 13:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:11:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 09 15:11:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsHw-0002Xj-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsHv-0006VC-Vv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsHf-0006V5-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsHa-0006mh-2n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsHZ-0006mD-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsHX-0002Jy-Va for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:11 +0200 Original-Received: from g231106174.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.106.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:11 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231106174.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231106174.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z3dxflN9Yr7tOi/zUrGYIz0nxeQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97064 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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