Re: skeleton.el _ versus @

[Joe Kelsey]

On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 04:23, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Before my patch, the behavior was that after insertion of
>     a skeleton, point would be placed at "the first occurrence of _
>     or at the end of the skeleton".
> 
>     What my patch changed is that point after insertion of a skeleton
>     is now placed at "the first occurrence of _ or @
>     or at the end of the skeleton".
> 
> Couldn't you get the same result with the old code
> by writing @ _?

The real solution is to create a new character which has the semantice
"set skeleton-point like _ but don't interact with regions".  This can
easily be accomplished by using - or : (for instance) instead of
corrupting the @ semantics.

/Joe