From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Copy whitespace-delimited text to variable Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 07:20:13 -0900 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20180309162013.GB2655@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <86zi3jqer1.fsf@zoho.com> <86lgf1rbhc.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520613183 21152 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 16:33:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 16:33:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 17:32:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euKx1-0005LE-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:32:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euKz2-0004kc-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33299) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euKkp-0000wy-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euKkk-0006aw-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:57250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euKkj-0006Ut-Aj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: by linus.johnson.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 839892013E9; Fri, 9 Mar 2018 07:20:13 -0900 (AKST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86lgf1rbhc.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116154 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [180308 21:51]: > Tim Johnson wrote: > > > :) I'm ready to fly ... and have already been > > using subr-x thanks, Emanuel > > That was a fun piece of code to write, but in > all honesty your own suggestion of modifying > the syntax table is much better, especially if > you can do it temporarily so it is used > transparently and won't affect anything else. Hmm! Interesting that you brought that up. Been thinking of the same. I hate messing with the '.' in python, 'cuz I don't want to mess up elpy. Having said that, just now am looking at Xah Lee's code at http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp_modify_syntax_table_temporarily.html -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com