Re: Allowing spaces in the regexp for outlines

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Thursday, March 21st, 2024 at 7:45 AM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> Heime wrote:
> 
> > (defvar el-hglevels
> > '( (";;; H1" . 1) (";;; H2" . 2) (";;; H3" . 3) (";;; H4" . 4) )
> > "Outline levels for elisp major mode.")
> 
> 
> You can also use `comment-start' instead of hardcoding ';',
> and use explicit repitition instead of hardcoding 3 - see
> 
> (info "(elisp) Regexp Backslash")
> 
> - and then also not hardcode the 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s in pairs
> but inserting them as integers into the string.
> 
> So yes, you can improve a lot! And spend all weekend on it.
 
Have attempted the following without success

 (";;;\\[[:space:]]+H1" . 1) 

 (";;;\[[:space:]]+H1" . 1) 

 (";;;[[:space:]]+H1" . 1)