From: Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scanning parenthesis in string/comment
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:49:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdva62af247.fsf@fw.net.yu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497B6D44-1C2D-4C45-9B6B-6719D49B4A69@gmail.com>
Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
> I’m writing an expand-region-like function, which expands region by logical entities, like word-at-point, list-at-point, etc. Say I have this string
>
> "Filter out invalid regions in REGIONS regarding ORIG.
> ORIG is the current position. Each region is (BEG . END).”
>
> And point is at the opening parenthesis, how do I detect this balanced
> parenthesis pair and expand the region over it? syntax-pass and forward-list
> only works with lists outside of strings and comments, IIUC.
>
> Yuan
Based on what I remember reading from the relevant info pages and
docstrings, is it possible that you start a new syntax scan that starts
*at point* and ends *before the ending quotes*? IIUC the function
`parse-partial-sexp' might be what you should look into next.
Best,
RY
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-23 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-22 17:15 Scanning parenthesis in string/comment Yuan Fu
2023-01-23 1:49 ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2023-01-23 19:24 ` Yuan Fu
2023-01-23 8:10 ` Jean Louis
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