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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: +1 char strings as open-bracket/close-bracket
Date: 25 Jun 2009 11:19:20 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnh46n77.nu7.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c3ca0846-dda7-4ba8-a559-45ae0c330131@n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com

Kokor Hekkus wrote:
> Any way of modifying the syntax table to identify a string of more
> than one character as an open-bracket or a close-bracket character.
> For instance, you might do:
>
>      (modify-syntax-entry ?^ "($")
>      (modify-syntax-entry ?$ ")^")
>
> ...to make ^ and $ match each other (from EmacsWiki).  How would I
> make the two character strings '#>' and '<#' match in the same way?
> The above doesn't work.

if i do C-h f modify-syntax-entry RET, somewhere in the help buffer, it
says:

"Only single-character comment start and end sequences are represented thus.
Two-character sequences are represented as described below."

i guess that would be a starting point for you to look at.


-- 
Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-25 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25 11:13 +1 char strings as open-bracket/close-bracket Kokor Hekkus
2009-06-25 11:19 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2009-06-26  6:38 ` Andreas Röhler

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