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Re: RFE: Editing string literals like org-mode?


From: Tim Landscheidt
Subject: Re: RFE: Editing string literals like org-mode?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:42:31 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

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

> […]

> To get started, you'll probably want to provide a useful default value
> for `string-quote-function` (presumably relying on the syntax tables,
> maybe with some heuristics to handle some \t and friends) so that the
> feature works out of the box (to some extent) in many major modes.

I was more hoping for someone's "I'm on it!" :-).  The last
time I looked at fixing a minor nuisance in a mode's fonti-
fication, I was overwhelmed by Emacs's code in that corner
that, eh, seemed appropriately sized for a very complex pro-
blem.

Tim




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