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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [prettify-symbols-mode] Two consecutive matches don't work?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:46:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtu9l4duh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 875ym39k3d.fsf@gnu.org

>   1. nxml-mode: It feels wrong that <a>&lt is considered a symbol.  And
>      that the closing ; isn't part of the symbol &lt; seems also not
>      correct.  And why do < and > have symbol syntax.  Wouldn't
>      open/close paren be more appropriate?

It all depends if your XML is mostly made of "tags" or mostly made of
text.  IIRC the syntax table used in XML/SGML/HTML buffers is usually
a variant of the text-mode syntax table (and then another syntax-table
is used while parsing the actual *ML structure).


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-19 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-18  9:32 [prettify-symbols-mode] Two consecutive matches don't work? Joost
2022-05-18 10:07 ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-18 10:54   ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-19 17:46     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-05-19 19:09       ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-18 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-18 12:28   ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-18 20:01     ` Joost Kremers

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