From: gebser@ameritech.net
Subject: What's a better regexp for 'sentence-end' variable??
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:16:26 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302180656590.16795-100000@heidegger.mousecar.net> (raw)
Hello, all,
Happy snowstorm!
This problem has required some thought and, frankly,I don't think it can
be done-- not without some considerable rewriting of elisp code.
Because I do considerable editing of html and similar types of files, I
wanted to add to the standard definition of "sentence-end". I.e., I
wanted emacs to consider an end of sentence such character sequences
which have ".", "?", or "!" when they are followed by either a "<" or
">".
The standard end-of-sentence variable is defined as:
(defcustom sentence-end (purecopy "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)[
\t\n]*")
Initially I thought that just adding the "<" and ">" characters would do
it. I.e.:
(defcustom sentence-end (purecopy "[.?!][]\<>\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\|
\\)[ \t\n]*")
(the above should be all on one line) would do this. It doesn't because
I want the cursor to land on top of the ">" or "<" character immediately
after string comprising the standard definition. That is, given:
end.</p>
hitting M-e would place the cursor after the period.
So what's the proper syntax to have emacs see ".", "!", or "?" (and
other expressions defined by the default "sentence-end variable) as the
end of a sentence when one of them is followed by either the ">" or "<"
characters?
The reason I said that I didn't think this could be done simply is
because it seems that emacs would have to search and find strings such
as ".<" or ". <" or "? <" and then back up a character or two or three.
Hope I've been clear enough.
tia,
ken
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2003-02-18 13:16 gebser [this message]
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2003-02-18 14:06 ` What's a better regexp for 'sentence-end' variable?? Oliver Scholz
2003-02-18 20:15 ` gebser
2003-02-18 22:32 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-19 15:38 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-19 15:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-02-19 16:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-18 22:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-19 20:42 ` gebser
2003-02-19 18:41 ` gebser
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2003-02-21 10:37 ` gebser
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2003-02-21 14:40 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-21 14:55 ` gebser
2003-02-21 18:53 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-02-21 19:46 ` gebser
2003-02-21 20:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22 1:14 ` gebser
2003-02-21 19:09 ` David Kastrup
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