Questions tagged [delimiters]
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How can I find corresponding balanced parentheses?
I have this LaTeX code:
\caption{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet: foo), bar), baz) and qux) consectetuer adipiscing elit.}
I want to put a marker immediately before the first { and one immediately after ...
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Highlight matching parenthesis, only in Lisp mode (and maybe a few similar modes)
is there a way to have the global minor mode show-paren-mode
functionality as a buffer-local minor mode? I love its behavior but only for Lisp.
Searching for a package I can see a number of close ...
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How to find the matching bracket at a point in elisp?
What is a reliable way to find the matching balanced bracket (eg: {}, [], () in C or Python), which doesn't get confused by brackets in strings, or escaped brackets for e.g.
Example:
["Foo]" ?\] 0 [...
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Test if I am inside a paired delimiter
I have been having a problem where I want an up-sexp command that treats paired delimiters like $ in LaTeX-mode just as if they were pairs of balanced parentheses. There are hacks I can use that get ...
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Highlight matching quotes
Is it possible to highlight matching quotes as show-paren-mode does with parentheses? The characters I'm looking to highlight are "dumb" quotes, both single (Unicode: apostrophe, U+0027) and double (...
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Easily changing matching quotes
Not infrequently, I want to change the delimiters of a string from single quotes to double quotes, or vice versa. This is so annoying a process I wonder if there's an easier way.
What I do now is:
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How to configure the delimiter for evil-search-word for C/C++ modes? [duplicate]
Using evil mode, pressing * runs evil-search-word-forward.
But for some reason C/C++ mode uses _ as a delimiter, meaning ID_FOO will only match the first term ID when searching for the next term.
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How to do paredit-kill backwards?
Most everyone who uses paredit has used paredit-kill (i.e., C-k), which allows one to delete a line forwards whilst keeping delimiters balanced properly. But how does one do this in the reverse ...
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How do I match a closing bracket in Emacs lisp
I would think this was really simple. I am trying to match closing delimiters in Emacs Lisp regex. I can match {}()[ no problem, but I cannot match ]. I have been using re-builder and have tried "[\\}\...
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Change field separator for sort-fields
sort-fields and sort-numeric-fields work great; but the field separator is whitespace. I would like to use a different delimiter (e.g.: [colon-char]).
I want this feature because I find myself ...
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Getting electric-pair mode to behave more nicely around existing strings
Electric-pair-mode always tries to insert a closing delimiter after the opening one if nothing is selected. However, if you're placing delimiters around an existing something that you don't want to ...
