Re: syntax table entries for comments

[Arjan Bos]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

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> > Could you please enlighten me as to why your way is better? I'm no (e)lisp
> > expert, but I'm doing allright with a bit of voodoo programming[1].
>
>
> Advantages are:
> - shorter.
> - less memory used since the code that sets up the table can be discarded
>   after the table is setup, whereas in your case, the function
>   nrx-create-syntax-table needs to be kept around in case someone wants
>   to call it.
> - no temporary stage where nrx-mode-syntax-table holds a value that is
>   not a syntax-table (or that is a syntax-table but that is not yet
>   properly initialized): either it's there and initialized or it's not
>   there at all.

Sounds good to me, thanks!

>
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> > I tried the latter, but then strings within the `--' comment will undo the
> > comment highlighting.
>
>
> I suspect you used font-lock-keywords rather than
> font-lock-syntactic-keywords.
You're right, I'll look up the docs for that then.

> > So I'll try to voodoo hack src/syntax.c
>
>
> That would be wonderful.
Don't get your hopes up to high yet. The amount of constants in syntax.c 
and my lack of c knowlegde will make this hard. (Were it COBOL though... 
:-). I do happen to have a fairly recent CVS snapshot though, so I'll 
try it.

Arjan