Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2021 at 9:01 AM
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> To: pietru@caramail.com
> Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: prettify-symbols-mode to handle "\alpha-\beta" ...
>
> > Would allowing a regexp solve the expression \alpha-\beta,
> > \alpha+\beta, \alpha/\beta, so that \alpha and \beta are
> > prettified seperately?
> 
> I don't see how a regexp would help in those cases.
 
We could somehow employ 'split-string', which will target hyphens (or
whatever regexp of separators) and split every occurence of a composite
as two separate strings which can then be checked separately for
equality against alist.
 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
> 

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