From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the use of "categories"?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:29:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftyzfysn.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zhx95hnj.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2018-08-26, at 16:25, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:30:59 +0200
>>
>> I found out about "categories" today - see (info "(elisp) Categories").
>> What is the use of them? I noticed that filling functions use them
>> (which makes sense), is there anything else in stock Emacs or packages
>> that does?
>
> You can use categories in regular expressions, via the \c escape.
> This could allow you, for example, to find Katakana characters, or
> characters that are consonants.
Thanks!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-27 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-26 6:30 What is the use of "categories"? Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-26 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 18:29 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-08-30 2:47 ` John Shahid
2018-08-30 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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