From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:28:35 +0200 Message-ID: <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506418162 28518 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 09:29:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:29:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 11:29:17 2017 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 1dwmAz-0006jK-BO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:29:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmB6-0004KM-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmAa-0004KG-Vr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmAX-0001xq-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54068 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmAX-0001x6-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwmAO-0004QD-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:28:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:t8v1dP+l1FswmItHT9hyHIEuQew= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114408 Archived-At: Alberto Luaces wrote: > Hello, I have some inherited code where the > style used was to squeeze every single > non-required white-space. There are long > lists of comma-separated values with any > spaces on them, rendering the code very > difficult to read. > > I wanted to have something like glasses-mode, > but unless I am mistaken, it is not very > configurable, so I cannot add new cases as > commas separated by spaces, which is mine. > > Then I thought of overlays, but the manual > says that if there are a big number of > substitutions, maybe it could be a better > idea to use text properties instead. > > So, from the top of your head, what would be > the less painful method to change every comma > to a comma+space, or at least change the > color of the commas to anything more > distinguishable and attach it to the language > mode hook? ... you mean in code that is already written? Do it by hand, or use `replace-regexp'. (replace-regexp "," ", ") -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573