From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: My humble additions to AUCTeX Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:34:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <74255a49-d12b-44b6-982e-fc498ec9a021@googlegroups.com> References: <20140113002818.77105028@aga-netbook> <87y52j6d3g.fsf@yahoo.fr> <20140113191650.0fce85c1@aga-netbook> <87r3upjx1v.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421807721 28917 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2015 02:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:35:21 +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 Jan 21 03:35:20 2015 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 1YDl8a-00076J-9H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 03:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDl8Y-0000VC-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:35:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.43.99.202 with SMTP id ct10mr31513971icc.29.1421807658989; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:34:18 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.66.227 with SMTP id i3mr338574igt.14.1421807658821; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:34:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no974976igd.0!news-out.google.com!db6ni4746igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no596772igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.6.48; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.6.48 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:34:18 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209904 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:102183 Archived-At: On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 12:13:00 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > AucTex. This is ultimately a limitation of emacs syntax table. AFAIK, > > there's no way to define \foo as a symbol while keeping \foo\foo as two > > separate symbols. > > FWIW, I'd really like to see syntax-tables extended to finite state > machines so they can match any token described by a regular expression. [Somewhat OT] It may be a good idea to build ragel (or some such) into the guts of emacs http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/