From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:29:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83bndn1qh7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <0ac95dde-75ba-464b-90b2-1b19b348473e@default> <55DC530B.4040509@yandex.ru> <55DCE945.40701@yandex.ru> <41A4C5AF-6F4B-4927-8C42-E7E6048716E1@gmail.com> <877fohbf5g.fsf@gmail.com> <55DE96DE.80400@cs.ucla.edu> <55DF45E2.9010806@cs.ucla.edu> <55DFC130.7060006@cs.ucla.edu> <8737z396hb.fsf@gmx.us> <83si732pls.fsf@gnu.org> <83613y2hqg.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp2425zh.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441031376 32095 80.91.229.3 (31 Aug 2015 14:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rasmus@gmx.us, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 16:29:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZWQ5H-0000ZB-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:29:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWQ5H-0005WE-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWQ53-0005Vw-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWQ4y-0004dI-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:43742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWQ4y-0004d4-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTY00K00ALPHN00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:28:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTY00D97AW13Z90@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:28:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189344 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: rasmus@gmx.us, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:33:29 -0400 > > > I'm not sure I understand: are you saying that it is fundamentally > > wrong or unclean to have a syntax category for word-constituent > > characters that cannot appear at word beginning or end? > > No, I think the key question is rather whether it's OK for characters > like ' to have "w" as base syntax (which affects things like \<). So you are saying we should have a separate syntax category for such characters? If so, won't that have the downside that many regexps that currently just use \w will need to use \w\|\X (where X is the new category) instead?