From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Old-style backquotes in cc-vars.el Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 08:14:48 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20070901101821.GB3915@muc.de> <18140.52612.834052.399474@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <18142.4759.94109.793460@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188960303 9685 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 02:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 04:45:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISkt0-0008Vh-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:44:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISksy-0007Z7-VV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISksv-0007Ys-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISkst-0007Yg-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISkst-0007Yd-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISkst-0003RR-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e27so1735841nfd for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:44:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HLUjFzrRW5wyi2AWBW+UN8SbAdAstYHSy8ZNlCCpQEyl9UpVHqcikrd445O9muNB31gziQZZp7LDAQQ3UATvF1R6YZqBPT+Wgalp5272hvDrMYWG441c/C+J+VZaDTRPWHy33UX4mANSUgH3A73u1yavNYZj913MheCSbbK6iY8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rD9MOEruf3sHIkiNUdwHrF5GJFVxAA0g0TebNuRszbqnrBDU0v7KU1hrdwCQL3pWby/PRkM7HN/u0amO2hFbJa0voRgYu0WBOO8BzMnH6QY+cQu621LmZUlmAD12JXjIiw+4KRaWUXGY+uRA1XEo2BWuRMgv3g4OBWyZ+j/56w8= Original-Received: by 10.78.201.15 with SMTP id y15mr4730693huf.1188960288610; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.90.19 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:44:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18142.4759.94109.793460@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Disposition: inline X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77811 Archived-At: Hi, On 9/5/07, T. V. Raman wrote: > > If I do write them, I'll be sure to contribute them. On the > selfish end, I've already fixed my code that needed the fixing, > so the motivation to write the code is not high at present. > > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman writes: > Richard> It would be nice to have a couple of utility > Richard> edit functions that turns old-style backquotes to > Richard> new-style backquotes. > Richard> > Richard> Would you like to write them? If someone can point me to the complete definition of old and new style (and variants if any), I will try to develop a tool to do the conversion automatically. I have done a bit of parsing related work and feel I can do it. -dky -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Contents reflect my personal views only!