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bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name |
Date: |
Thu, 28 May 2009 08:34:26 -0700 |
> > A colon is a symbol consituent. A command that picks up
> > the symbol at point will conveniently pick up the variable
> > etc. name, but it will also include the colon (assuming
> > that it correctly respects Lisp symbol syntax), which is
> > incorrect.
>
> Maybe we should improve or expand the regexp of `variable-at-point'
> "\\`\\W*\\(.*?\\)\\W*\\'" to strip _any_ symbol characters
> surrounding a word-bounded substring at point. Or add yet
> another condition with a laxer regexp.
There is no need to envisage complicated fixes that in any case do not address
the inconvenience I raised. That is not the point of this bug report. Please
open a separate thread if you want to propose such a thing.
I specifically went to the trouble of speaking in generic terms, talking about
"a command that picks up the symbol at point", without referring to any specific
such command, such as `variable-at-point'.
The fix I mentioned lets you use any command at all that picks up symbol syntax
here. A change to `variable-at-point' is not what I'm asking for - that will not
affect other commands that (already DTRT) pick up a symbol name at or near
point.
Simply removing the colon solves the problem, and it has absolutely no negative
effect. Besides being bothersome here, the colon is 100% useless.
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, Drew Adams, 2009/05/26
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, Drew Adams, 2009/05/26
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, martin rudalics, 2009/05/28
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, martin rudalics, 2009/05/28
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, Drew Adams, 2009/05/28
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, martin rudalics, 2009/05/28
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, Drew Adams, 2009/05/28
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, martin rudalics, 2009/05/28
- bug#3395: 23.0.94; Remove colon after option etc. name, Drew Adams, 2009/05/28