Re: defining new character names?

[Marius Vollmer]

"Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd like to be able to do something like this:
> 
> (define-character "paren-close" #\051) ; 051 is ")"
> 
> and then later
> 
> (string-index line #\paren-close)
>
> [...]
> I've looked in libguile/chars.{c,h} and the guile docs, but
> didn't find any obvious way to do this.  Is it possible?

Not currently, but I think it's a good idea.

> The reason i'd like to do this is that inserting #\) in the
> scheme file makes the vim "%" command unusable over those
> blocks

vim should be fixed then, no? ;)

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