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bug#32504: [PATCH] syntax-is-{comment|string}-p
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#32504: [PATCH] syntax-is-{comment|string}-p |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 20:05:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu 30 Aug 2018 at 20:21, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm not a big fan of the docstrings generated by this, is there a way to
>>> change them to be more helpful?
>>
>> Hmm, doesn't look like it. Well, that's just a convenient way of
>> defining them all quickly for discussion, it wouldn't be that much
>> harder to write out defuns I guess.
>
> Fair enough.
The recent talk about accessors for decoded time reminded me of this.
Here's an initial patch.
0001-Add-named-accessors-for-syntax-ppss-state-Bug-32504.patch
Description: patch
>>> CL-X defaults to point.
>>
>> And, my intention is to operate on the return value of syntax-ppss, not
>> give a point to call it with.
>
> Right, but whenever I want to call on these functions, 90% of the time
> the question I'm trying to answer is "Is point in a comment/string?" And
> the 3rd party ***-is-comment/string-p functions I've looked at usually
> (always?) look at positions.
Well, for me I just want to stop having to look up the docstring of
parse-partial-sexp every damn time I see (nth X PPSS). But I wouldn't
be against having syntax-is-comment/string-p which take a position as
well.
- bug#32504: [PATCH] syntax-is-{comment|string}-p,
Noam Postavsky <=