From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing string delimiter character to be matching curly brackets Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:46:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1189632670.410621.97420@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190091899 1512 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2007 05:04:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:04:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 18 07:04:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXVGb-00026P-Vh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:04:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXUsy-0004vX-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:46:55 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ryee0YMKwRxmNQCr9SjKWM3QjTs= Original-Lines: 11 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-op253KxUrunzHn8gG/GUujF4RLTKmsHDk7V2wzuyiY5C9p2E4502X9Z3LYZfQ034s83vCANDBVYs8Ks!KpWOqLuy6FkoX4ODzG3aRI+7cZbnRjH36RXuNWaIUKXB1GFiPg4kuDDfRqBuPexwA8mZ2cMLYUS3!l3Bwmgq87lN32X+uXA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152145 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47655 Archived-At: > Either the syntax is wrong or the strategy is. (I'm guessing the > latter.) Both. Emacs's syntax tables have no support for nestable string syntax. The start and end of a string need to be the same char. The closest you can get without going through significantly more efforts is to mark them as string-fence such that both { and } can start or end a string, i.e. }hello} and }hello{ are both strings. Stefan