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: Low level trickery for changing character syntax? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:49:14 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1397047809 9468 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2014 12:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:50:09 +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 14:50:02 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 1WXrx2-00066C-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:50:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXrx1-0006vw-IY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXrwj-0006vk-Nr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXrwc-0006di-7o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXrwc-0006dc-0S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXrwY-0005oA-Vz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:49:30 +0200 Original-Received: from 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca ([192.171.35.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:49:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:49:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5vkGJi3S3hpReEONgyI4rpItPMk= 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:97058 Archived-At: > 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:]]). Stefan