* prolog-mode uses bad syntax for _
@ 2008-10-10 6:28 Miles Bader
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From: Miles Bader @ 2008-10-10 6:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
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prolog-mode changes the syntax of _ to be a word-constituent, which I
suspect is the wrong thing. It does not interact well with users'
editing intuitions.
Most old modes that I've seen do this, do it only so that they can use
\< and \> in regexps (to match things like keywords) without getting
false positives adjacent to an underscore. Nowdays we can just change
the regexps to use \_< and \_> instead, so _ should be able to have a
more normal syntax.
Anyone see any problems with changing prolog-mode in this fashion?
Thanks,
-Miles
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