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Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore'
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore' |
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Sat, 02 Apr 2022 10:06:41 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> The symbol is interpreted as a glob
>> +pattern; in particular, @code{*} matches everything.
> Do you mean shell glob patterns? AFAIK, we don't use them in Emacs
> except for shell wildcards, so why are they used here?
A bit of history: originally his code only supported `*` and I suggested
the use of `wildcard-to-regexp` to both simplify the code, be more
general, and simplify the doc since we can just say "glob pattern" which
is a known concept.
> why not regexps?
I did not suggest the use of regexps because I felt that regexps written
as symbols could be problematic (especially the `.` being a second-class
citizen among symbol constituents in ELisp). Admittedly, in practice
`.` works fine (i.e. without backslash-escaping) in most places in
a symbol so maybe it wouldn't be that bad.
My gut tells me that globs are preferable here (slightly less verbose
and slightly less odd):
(typer-mode foo-*-baz)
vs
(typer-mode \\\`foo-.*-baz\\\')
But either way is fine by me (we can make the \\\` anchoring \\\' implicit).
> And in any case, those patterns need a thorough description,
> since we don't use them elsewhere. For example, the way to quote
> meta-characters such as '*' must be documented, because it isn't
> self-evident.
AFAIK glob patterns come with their own standard way to escape,
e.g. `foo[*]bar`, tho admittedly to make it into a single symbol you need
to write it as `foo\[*\]bar` :-(
Stefan
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Augusto Stoffel, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Augusto Stoffel, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Augusto Stoffel, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Augusto Stoffel, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/02
- Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Augusto Stoffel, 2022/04/02
Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore',
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RE: [External] : Re: master 5c70ff9: New user option 'font-lock-ignore', Drew Adams, 2022/04/02