Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth

[joakim]

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:


> - full parsers belong in the CEDET infrastructure where they can be
> accessed via a common API
> - if this API is not rich enough, it ought to be extended
> - normal major modes shouldn't rely on rigid grammars because that
> makes them brittle. Anything that needs such a grammar should be an
> optional and preferably generic minor-mode
>
> (I still think it'd be worthwhile to include the JS2 parser in CEDET,
> which supports parsers not necessarily generated with wisent or bison.
> It seems robust in its problem domain.)

Small piece of information: CEDET already includes a Javascript parser
that I provided some time ago.


Joakim Verona