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Re: tags completion bug
From: |
Gerd Moellmann |
Subject: |
Re: tags completion bug |
Date: |
25 Sep 2002 13:16:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> writes:
> I see that in etags-tags-completion-table you added the characters
> "+*:?" as legitimate in an identifier. Stefan Monnier on emacs-devel
> pointed out that the asterisk is used in Common Lisp. What are the
> other characters for?
`+' is conventionally used in Common Lisp for constants like
(defconstant +a-constant+ 42).
`?' is used in Scheme (and sometimes in CL) for predicates, for
instance `(define (some-predicate? x) ...)'.
Alas, I don't remember what the `:' is for. Maybe for symbols, in CL,
that include package names, like in `(defun some-package:some-symbol
() ...)'?
> I'd like to write this info in a comment inside the function.
>
> Also, would it be reasonable to use \(\sw\|\s_\), instead of the
> bracketed lists of characters?
I guess that would make sense.
I could think of other characters that are currently not in the
completion table, like `!' that's used in Scheme, as in `(define
(modify! something) ...)', or maybe `%' that's conventionally used in
CL for internal-use-only functions, `(defun %internal-function ()
...)'.