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Re: syntax-after
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: syntax-after |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:38:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> What was the reason for the following change?
>
> 2004-11-06 Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden>
>
> * subr.el (syntax-after): Return the syntax letter, not the raw code.
>
> It seems really gratuitous. There are already 2 ways to represent the
> syntax info of a char: as a cons cell and as a string. Both are documented
> in the elisp manual.
>
> The above change introduces yet a third representation, and an undocumented
> one at that. Was that really necessary?
>
> I just saw that the above change caused Juri to install a fix to
> descr-text.el that replaces a call to syntax-after with a copy of its
> (previous) body. I think this is moving backward, not forward.
FWIW, I grepped the whole source tree, and there were only 2 places
where `syntax-after' was used: `show-paren-function' and `describe-char'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- syntax-after, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/11
- Re: syntax-after,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: syntax-after, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/12
- Re: syntax-after, Juri Linkov, 2004/11/13
- Re: syntax-after, Stefan, 2004/11/13
- Re: syntax-after, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/16
- Re: syntax-after, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/22
- Re: syntax-after, Kim F. Storm, 2004/11/22
- Re: syntax-after, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/22
- Re: syntax-after, Juri Linkov, 2004/11/23
- Re: syntax-after, Stefan, 2004/11/23
- Re: syntax-after, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/23