Re: Low level trickery for changing character syntax?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Is it possible to redefine characters "^", "$" and "*" in a syntax-table
>> in such a way that the same hardcoded regexp, e.g.
>
> No.  Syntax-tables have no influence on those regexp elements.
> They only affect things like \<, \>, \_<, \_>, \sC, \Sc and some character
> ranges (like [[:word:]]).

Ok, thanks, then I will try to improve the things I'm working on and
then give it a try with the Org maintainers, hoping that the gains of
the required changes to Org-mode appear greater than the costs to them.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten