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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Rosen Diankov <rdiankov@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Olivier Lefevre <lefevrol@yahoo.com>,
	bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 703@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
	help@octave.org
Subject: bug#703: Octave comments in emacs
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:31:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfxp7cpme.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <103101d70808121307p61e728fbtc5aed8b91bf25caf@mail.gmail.com> (Rosen Diankov's message of "Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:07:42 -0400")

> Is there a way to assign two different syntax rules for the same
> character in emacs? Ie, one where ' is treated as a string quote (and
> suppresses the syntax elements inside the quotes), and one where it is
> treated as a suffix operator.

Yes, there is, using the `syntax-table' property.
A common way to set this property is via the
font-lock-syntactic-keywords variable.

So all it takes is a regexp good enough to distinguish the two cases ;-)


        Stefan







  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-14 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12  2:36 Octave comments in emacs Rosen Diankov
2008-08-12 20:07 ` Rosen Diankov
2008-08-14 20:31   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-10  7:06 ` bug#697: " Glenn Morris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-13 22:18 bug#703: " Chong Yidong
2008-08-20 16:55 ` Kurt Hornik
2008-08-20 23:21   ` Rosen Diankov
2008-08-20 23:27     ` Rosen Diankov
2008-08-21 15:55 Chong Yidong
2008-08-21 18:26 ` Rosen Diankov

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