From: Keith Wright <kwright@gis.net>
Cc: larsa@sim.no, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defining new character names?
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:40:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208200340.g7K3e7I01435@fcs9.free-comp-shop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871y8uxvyd.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (message from Marius Vollmer on 20 Aug 2002 01:36:26 +0200)
> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
> From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
>
> "Lars J. Aas" <larsa@sim.no> writes:
>
> > I'd like to be able to do something like this:
> >
> > (define-character "paren-close" #\051) ; 051 is ")"
> > and then later
> > (string-index line #\paren-close)
>
> Not currently, but I think it's a good idea.
(A) Only in the context of a general mechanism to define constants.
(B) The double quotes around "paren-close" in the definition
are surely wrong.
> > The reason i'd like to do this is that inserting #\) in the
> > scheme file makes the vim "%" command unusable over those
> > blocks
>
> vim should be fixed then, no? ;)
Maybe so. Not my job.
In the meantime, why not say
(define close-char #\( ) % define )
(string-index line close-char)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-20 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-19 10:07 defining new character names? Lars J. Aas
2002-08-19 23:36 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-20 3:40 ` Keith Wright [this message]
2002-08-21 4:01 ` Keith Wright
2002-08-21 8:12 ` Lars J. Aas
2002-08-21 8:43 ` rm
2002-08-21 8:51 ` Matthias Koeppe
2002-08-21 9:17 ` Lars J. Aas
2002-08-21 9:54 ` rm
2002-08-27 15:09 ` Matthias Koeppe
2002-09-01 16:24 ` Rob Browning
2002-09-01 16:49 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-20 8:20 ` Matthias Koeppe
2002-08-20 10:18 ` rm
2002-08-21 9:20 ` Matthias Koeppe
2002-08-21 10:00 ` rm
2002-08-21 18:01 ` Marius Vollmer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-21 15:24 Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-21 17:33 ` Keith Wright
2002-08-21 18:27 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-21 19:06 ` rm
2002-08-21 19:47 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-21 23:04 ` Keith Wright
2002-08-21 23:07 ` Keith Wright
2002-08-21 19:40 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-22 4:12 ` Keith Wright
2002-08-22 5:16 ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-08-22 7:42 ` rm
2002-08-22 8:39 ` Lynn Winebarger
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