From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: My humble additions to AUCTeX Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:42:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140113002818.77105028@aga-netbook> <87y52j6d3g.fsf@yahoo.fr> <20140113191650.0fce85c1@aga-netbook> <87r3upjx1v.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421779398 2965 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2015 18:43:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:43:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 19:43:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YDdli-0002BW-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:43:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45241 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDdlh-0004cI-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDdlQ-0004b9-HV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDdlM-0006PY-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:42:56 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDdlM-0006PL-Ny for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YDdlK-00023B-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:42:50 +0100 Original-Received: from 167-88-21-140.cpe.teksavvy.com ([167.88.21.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:42:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 167-88-21-140.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:42:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 167-88-21-140.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jixOFfWfnMWRw++adjr4w+KEVng= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102180 Archived-At: > AucTex. This is ultimately a limitation of emacs syntax table. AFAIK, > there's no way to define \foo as a symbol while keeping \foo\foo as two > separate symbols. FWIW, I'd really like to see syntax-tables extended to finite state machines so they can match any token described by a regular expression. Stefan