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Ingvar Mattsson  
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 More options Jan 14 2003, 9:45 am
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From: Ingvar Mattsson <ing...@cathouse.bofh.se>
Date: 14 Jan 2003 14:44:36 +0000
Local: Tues, Jan 14 2003 9:44 am
Subject: Re: If you can't beat 'em... [was Re: Lisp editor that can parse strings]
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"Adam Warner" <use...@consulting.net.nz> writes:
> Hi Tim Bradshaw,

> > Emacs's `paren in first column is beginning of defun' trick might have
> > been a reasonably compromise on a vax, but it's just annoyingly stupid
> > now.

> I've spent a few hours coming to understand how the font-lock mode etc.
> works but didn't figure out how to improve its reliability. I was
> searching in vain trying to find how square brackets were being matched. I
> finally realised that the regular expression \s( also matches square
> brackets in lisp mode.

I think \s( matyches any character with a "(" syntax class (open of
some sort, a two-position slot in the buffer syntax table, with the
second being the close character).

//Ingvar
--
(defmacro fakelambda (args &body body) `(labels ((me ,args ,@body)) #'me))
(funcall (fakelambda (a b) (if (zerop (length a)) b (format nil "~a~a"
 (aref a 0) (me b (subseq a 1))))) "Js nte iphce" "utaohrls akr")


 
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