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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tex-mode prettify-symbols-alist  for ("\\cos" . ?cos)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:38:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blcnh6uw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-e6f72865-f795-4ec8-adbb-c2214a31418d-1613259094864@3c-app-mailcom-bs12>

pietru@caramail.com writes:

> I want to prettify "\cos" to be "cos".  Have used ("\\cos" . ?cos)
> but this gives
>
> Invalid read syntax: ?

That's because ?cos is no character.  ?c would be.  The replacements of
`prettify-symbols-alist' must be characters (or something being valid
input for `compose-region's 3rd parameter).

Bye,
Tassilo



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-13 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-13 23:31 tex-mode prettify-symbols-alist for ("\\cos" . ?cos) pietru
2021-02-13 23:38 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2021-02-13 23:51   ` pietru

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