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Re: What is the use of "categories"?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: What is the use of "categories"? |
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Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:25:36 +0300 |
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 08:30:59 +0200
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> I found out about "categories" today - see (info "(elisp) Categories").
> What is the use of them? I noticed that filling functions use them
> (which makes sense), is there anything else in stock Emacs or packages
> that does?
You can use categories in regular expressions, via the \c escape.
This could allow you, for example, to find Katakana characters, or
characters that are consonants.