Subject: Re: bug#72311: [PATCH] Treat period as a symbol constituent in cc-mode
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, Vladislav Yegorov <[email-masked]>, Jeremy Bryant <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:49:49 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 27/07/2024 14:26, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> It would be possible to put a syntax-table text property on a '.' when
>> it is followed directly by a decimal digit, with no space between.
>> Maybe we could also check that there's a valid number character before
>> the . (space, BOL, 0-9, -, ...?), but that might be over engineering.
>
> That sounds like the better choice indeed, but given the increase in complexity
> maybe the minor improvement in behavior is not really worth the effort.

It sounds like this is not a change that we want to make, so I'm closing
this now.

Nevertheless, thanks for the patch, Vladislav.