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Re: Tokenizing


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: Re: Tokenizing
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:35:06 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> - it should be possible to completely replace the font-lock-mode with
>> this mode, given a concrete language tokenizer;
>
> The intention for font-lock highlighting is to show
> syntactic structure.  In many cases, we end up limited to lexical
> highlighting, but that's a problem.

syntax-propertize provides hooks to let modes add to that; Ada mode uses
it for cases where lexical highlighting is ambiguous. Which is a problem
when parsing is too slow :(.

-- 
-- Stephe



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