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Re: Strings as opening/closing delimiters in the syntax table?
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Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
Re: Strings as opening/closing delimiters in the syntax table? |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:33:37 -0000 |
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slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) |
On 2010-10-27, Philip <phil.ganchev@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to make emacs match "if" to "then" in sh mode like it does "("
> and ")" in other modes. I read the wiki page about syntax tables
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsSyntaxTable ) but it only talks
> about opening and closing delimiter *characters*. Have I
> misunderstood, or have I found something that emacs cannot do? [ghasp!]
You should mark "i" in "if" and the final "e" in "else" by
corresponding matching `syntax-type' text-property.
Hope this helps,
Ilya