From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] let octave-mode understand single-quoted strings Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:24:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C02D67D.5090302@censorshipresearch.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283445121 3867 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2010 16:32:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , Emacs development discussions To: Jordi =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 02 18:31:59 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrChc-0006ig-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:31:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrChZ-0004HM-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40850 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OrCaR-0000MH-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrCaQ-0002ei-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm4.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.4]:32983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OrCaQ-0002e3-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost2.adm.correo ([10.20.102.39]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 1poU1f0060r0BT63QsQ3Wr; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([88.9.47.113]) by IMPmailhost2.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 1sQ11f00N2SXESY1isQ24M; Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:24:03 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C32CC660DF; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:24:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: ("Jordi =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso"'s message of "Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:07:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129603 Archived-At: >> That's definitely doable. =A0Tho if multiline strings are very rare and >> are discouraged/deprecated, it might not be worth the trouble. > They certainly are rare in the code I've seen. What prompted you to > improve support for them? Nothing at all. I just implemented the single-quote string support based on code I previously wrote for perl-mode, where it's used for string-like thingies that often span multiple lines. I.e. it came "for free". Stefan