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Re: Should not syntax for ?- char be word in text mode?
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Should not syntax for ?- char be word in text mode? |
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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:53:40 +0900 |
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> > There are plenty of word with a hyphen in them.
>
> python-mode does (or used to do) this with underscore (hyphen of
> course denotes an operator in Python). It got a *lot* of pushback.
It seems that many mode authors who don't know any better do that (make
things like "_" have word syntax) because it makes writing font-lock
regexps easier. It's still a horrible idea of course.
[Lua-mode does this as well; it drives me _nuts_...]
Now that we have ?_< and ?_> regexp patterns, there's no technical
reason any more I think...
-miles
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