"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No. There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter. The 4 >> before the H is a character count. And H stands for "Hollerith code", >> the punch card predecessor of "ASCII code". >> >> Another advantage of 4H^.*\n is that you can join the 4H club. >> >> However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed >> backwards. > > Yes, but there are 4HclubH4s for every taste. Imagine trying to > explain that design decision to someone in 10 years...
I don't think that font-lock patterns can be made to deal with that currently, so this is definitely not stuff we should be considering for the next release. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
