Re: Regexp with comment character of buffer

[Heime]

On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 12:26 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 at 18:41, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > > > How can I change the regexp so that instead of the beginning ;;;
> > > > I use the comment character of the current buffer, replicated three
> > > > times ?
> > > > 
> > > > (let ( (heading-regexp "^;;;\\s-+\\([HM][[:digit:]]\\)\\s-")
> 
> > Have done the following. Do I really need all this or are there better ways 
> > ?
> > 
> > (let* ((comment-char (regexp-quote (string-trim comment-start)))
> > (three-comment-chars (make-string 3 (string-to-char comment-char)))
> 
> 
> Does that work for you? (If not, go back to solving the problem.)
> 
> Does that work in all scenarios that are important to you? (If not, go
> back to solving the problem in a more general way.)
> 
> What aspects of the working solution seem unsatisfactory to you?
> 
> What hypothetical capabilities would you require in order to improve
> those aspects?

Is a string-trim required for comment-start ?