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SCSS parser ideas
From: |
Etienne Prud'homme |
Subject: |
SCSS parser ideas |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Apr 2016 16:51:54 -0400 |
Since I study in the field of Front-End web development, I find it sad
that Emacs lacks features that would otherwise be included in other
text-editors.
One feature that is lacking is discovering SCSS variable values. I’m
thinking something like Eldoc is doing for function declarations in C
or Emacs lisp.
Given that SCSS is a Preprocessor, it’s possible to evaluate a variable
by simply parsing a file. Unless a file changes, a variable will always
stay the same.
I made a basic prototype parser in elisp that did a hash map of all
variable declarations from a buffer. However, I don’t think it’s
suitable in the long-term.
Since I’ve got no experience in grammar parsing implementation, I was
wondering if it could be worth making a CEDET Semantic SCSS parser
(and thus CSS one). It would give much more flexibility. We could
include variables from other files, functions and mixins support or
even a CSS tree structure of a project.
Best regards,
- SCSS parser ideas,
Etienne Prud'homme <=