Re: c-hanging-braces-alist customization shows no syntactic symbols

[Stephanos Piperoglou <ta0001@piperoglou.com>]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>It's in the CC Mode manual, page "Hanging Braces".  (I'm sure I don't
>need to say this to you, but to get there, do C-h i   m cc mode
>i hanging  .)  
>  
>
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for (OK, actually it was 
c-offsets-alist that was the problem for me, but that was my bad :-), 
and your answer applies equally to that...)

>Maybe, and almost certainly no.
>I think what you're suggesting is that instead of this blank template:
>
>>   [ ] nil                 : Choice Newline [ ] before, [ ] after brace
>>    
>>
>, onto which you add the syntactic symbols you're interested in, you
>should get a complete list of relevant syntactic symbols, something like:
>
>[ ] brace-list-open     : [Choice] Newline [ ] before, [ ] after brace
>[ ] brace-entry-open    : [Choice] Newline [ ] before, [ ] after brace
>[ ] statement-cont      : [Choice] Newline [ ] before, [ ] after brace
>....
>  
>
Actually you *can't* add the syntactic symbols you're interested in, the 
'nil' bit isn't editable! So this is definitely a bug, not a feature...

Anyway, as you said this applies to cc-mode and not emacs itself so I'll 
be off to their lists/CVS to see if I can find/request/hack a fix.

Thanks again.