From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, 68477@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68477: 29.1; bibtex-braced-string-syntax-table should handle non-ASCII parentheses
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:58:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87frm1exve.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pll5ht34.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:13:51 +0200")
On Thu, Jan 02 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 68477@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:09:41 -0600
>>
>> I only discovered this bug report now. I believe utf-8 defines lots of
>> pairs of parentheses to which this bug report applies. Is there a
>> generic way to modify the syntax of "all" pairs of parentheses (except
>> the curly brackets "{" and "}") to punctuation so that parsing will
>> ignore such unpaired parentheses?
>
> Emacs should already set up the syntax of those characters, see
> char-syntax. Is that what you were looking for?
Here the goal is the other way round: Emacs should treat these extra
parentheses not as parentheses, but as punctuation, so that imbalanced
parentheses do not break the parsing of BibTeX fields that only care
about "{" and "}", and nothing else.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-15 16:43 bug#68477: 29.1; bibtex-braced-string-syntax-table should handle non-ASCII parentheses Joost Kremers
2025-01-02 19:09 ` Roland Winkler
2025-01-02 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-02 20:58 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2025-01-03 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-03 14:23 ` Roland Winkler
2025-01-07 19:50 ` Roland Winkler
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