Is it just me, or is it broken to edit definition on a symbol which has "*" at the end?
It appears that the culprit is > in the function-name regular expression in slime-goto-location-position. This is supposed to match a word break but according to M-x describe-syntax "*" is "symbol" as opposed to "word".
I fixed it in my version by changing \> to \(\>\|\s \) but didn't want to put this into cvs before someone else commented. Should the syntax table be changed instead, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
-Alan
Alan Ruttenberg alanr-l@mumble.net writes:
I fixed it in my version by changing \> to \(\>\|\s \) but didn't want to put this into cvs before someone else commented. Should the syntax table be changed instead, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Changing the regexps looks like the right fix. Perhaps even \(\>\|\S_\).
Apparently there's no concise way to express "end-of-symbol" with Emacs' regexps, but I think we shouldn't change the syntax table. "Symbol constituent" sounds like the right character class for '*', event though '*' is used mostly at the start or end of symbols.
Helmut.
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