org-extra-emphasis-alist markers return 'no such pair found'

[Rocco Ruscitti]

I use a package that adds org-extra-emphasis-alist so that I have 16 more types of emphasis markup styles.
the new markers I use are !, $, ^, %, and &.

When i type cs^ or ds^ it returns no such pair found, where ^ can be any of the markers listed above.

But I can add them perfectly well with ysiw^ or visual selecting the word and then S^

I've also tried both methods from the readme to either add new rules to the alist, or using the macro method

this is the use of the macro:
(macro-name "caret" "^" "\\^" "\\^")

There is clearly some issue happening between the packages. But I can't understand how it could be, since evil-surround should theoretically be searching the physical text, and org-extra-emphasis doesn't change the physical text, it just provides a new face

[Tom Dalziel]

@qaptoR I'm not sure I can replicate. If I add this to my config:

(setq-default evil-surround-pairs-alist
              (push '(?^ . ("^" . "^")) evil-surround-pairs-alist))

Then I can do ds^ just fine.
Alternatively, if I add this to my config:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
                           (push '(?^ . ("^" . "^")) evil-surround-pairs-alist)))

Then it also works, but only in org mode.

Am I missing something?

[Rocco Ruscitti]

Thank you for getting back about this. I will try your solution as soon as I get the chance and edit this comment with the result.

I think I assumed that I needed to escape the ^ because I thought evil-surround was using regex to pattern-match the symbols.

[Tom Dalziel]

Ah, no, evil-surround takes plain string for the delims, and uses regexp-quote under the hood to do the search. Let me know how you get on!