From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regexp with comment character of buffer
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:36:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lkrNeh0rntW2CmKXWEbdGejhdfP_GM0hTTjGh4a0KR9A07vz7FvhFXazVP2SDG8SQyw6-XKub0zwzXhSgNflw12Dmx_6Xp5BsJdthr3rCRM=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8USJWwu_6Q4dd+y2BxELg4GFWD9q38eporqJXvSGLAjxg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 12:26 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 at 18:41, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > > > How can I change the regexp so that instead of the beginning ;;;
> > > > I use the comment character of the current buffer, replicated three
> > > > times ?
> > > >
> > > > (let ( (heading-regexp "^;;;\\s-+\\([HM][[:digit:]]\\)\\s-")
>
> > Have done the following. Do I really need all this or are there better ways ?
> >
> > (let* ((comment-char (regexp-quote (string-trim comment-start)))
> > (three-comment-chars (make-string 3 (string-to-char comment-char)))
>
>
> Does that work for you? (If not, go back to solving the problem.)
>
> Does that work in all scenarios that are important to you? (If not, go
> back to solving the problem in a more general way.)
>
> What aspects of the working solution seem unsatisfactory to you?
>
> What hypothetical capabilities would you require in order to improve
> those aspects?
Is a string-trim required for comment-start ?
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-12 10:08 Regexp with comment character of buffer Heime
2024-08-12 11:03 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 11:41 ` Heime
2024-08-12 12:26 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 12:36 ` Heime [this message]
2024-08-12 17:11 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 17:50 ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:13 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 19:19 ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:22 ` Heime
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