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Re: Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting
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Tim Johnson |
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Re: Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:23:14 -0900 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> No, it doesn't. "\\(" is a regexp element that marks the beginning of
> a sub-regexp. It needs a closing "\\)" before the regexp is valid.
> It does nothing to parenthesis characters.
>
> Emacs doesn't know "word boundary characters". All it knows is that
> some characters are word-constituents and others aren't. And "\\<" is
> a regexp that matches an empty string on the condition that the char on
> the left is a non-word-constituent and the char on the right is
> a word-constituent.
Thank you for explaining the logic of this.
> : by default is not considered as a word-constituent. I'm not sure what
> you mean by "adding a colon as a word boundary".
Perhaps my thinking should be revised to mean
"eliminate ':' as a word constituent"
Regards
Tim