From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [prettify-symbols-mode] Two consecutive matches don't work? Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:46:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87czgb17ei.fsf@gmail.com> <875ym39k3d.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35823"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UqkDdCNkIRW6SRnYGVYLqtTBNgY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 19:56:10 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nrkNe-0009D2-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 19:56:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46266 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrkNd-0008EL-CC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 13:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrkE2-00082H-Vy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 13:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrkE1-000277-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 13:46:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nrkDw-0005Z5-Sp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 19:46:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137313 Archived-At: > 1. nxml-mode: It feels wrong that < is considered a symbol. And > that the closing ; isn't part of the symbol < seems also not > correct. And why do < and > have symbol syntax. Wouldn't > open/close paren be more appropriate? It all depends if your XML is mostly made of "tags" or mostly made of text. IIRC the syntax table used in XML/SGML/HTML buffers is usually a variant of the text-mode syntax table (and then another syntax-table is used while parsing the actual *ML structure). Stefan