* match of escaped parentheses
@ 2004-02-13 10:06 Alexander Heide
2004-02-13 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Alexander Heide @ 2004-02-13 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
I want to use parentheses matching in a document, that contains
expressions like "\(" and "\[". Emacs seems to recognize these
expressions as escaped parentheses. But that's the behavior I don't
want. Emacs should also match these expressions with ")" and "]", i.e.
ignore the backslash characters.
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* Re: match of escaped parentheses
2004-02-13 10:06 Alexander Heide
@ 2004-02-13 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-02-16 9:09 ` Alexander Heide
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2004-02-13 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
> I want to use parentheses matching in a document, that contains expressions
> like "\(" and "\[". Emacs seems to recognize these expressions as escaped
> parentheses. But that's the behavior I don't want. Emacs should also match
> these expressions with ")" and "]", i.e. ignore the backslash characters.
In which major mode?
Stefan
PS: Set the syntax of the \ char to something else than / or \.
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* Re: match of escaped parentheses
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@ 2004-02-13 23:01 ` Joe Corneli
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From: Joe Corneli @ 2004-02-13 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Stefan Monnier
Well, the behavior in latex-mode is pretty lame. (For \{ and \} as
well as the aforementioned forms.) This is unfortunate, because
these "escaped paretheses" symbols are used a lot in latex, and one
would often like to find where e.g. a set begins by using paren
matching.
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* Re: match of escaped parentheses
2004-02-13 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2004-02-16 9:09 ` Alexander Heide
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From: Alexander Heide @ 2004-02-16 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> In which major mode?
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
> PS: Set the syntax of the \ char to something else than / or \.
Thank you. The major mode was 'fundamental-mode'. And indeed the
character table shows (C-h s):
\ \ which means: escape
I switched to 'text-mode' (M-x text-mode) where parentheses are matched
as I want it.
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* Re: match of escaped parentheses
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@ 2004-02-16 9:15 ` Alexander Heide
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From: Alexander Heide @ 2004-02-16 9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Joe Corneli wrote:
> Well, the behavior in latex-mode is pretty lame. (For \{ and \} as
> well as the aforementioned forms.) This is unfortunate, because
> these "escaped paretheses" symbols are used a lot in latex, and one
> would often like to find where e.g. a set begins by using paren
> matching.
>
I tried to edit a Mathematica notebook. It was opened in
'fundamental-mode'. I changed to 'text-mode', where '\' does not mean
'escape'.
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