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Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes |
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Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:31:44 +0000 |
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Hello, Richard.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 08:38:04AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> Are you saying that there won't be a character with the "open island"
> in the syntax table, but rather a text property will give a particular
> string in the buffer the "open island" syntax?
Yes. I think it would most unwise to assign a character such a syntax
in the syntax table - the island boundaries would be unstable, existing
or not existing depending on the syntax table of the island one was
currently in. I anticipate writing a warning about this in the Emacs
Lisp manual.
> That makes more sense. But I think that in some cases "separate
> islands" might be a better designation. For instance, consider the
> three sections of a Bison input file. They are separated by a
> delimiter. It would be artificial and arbitrary to try to divide up
> the delimiter into a string to end the previous island and a string to
> start the next one.
I think Bison and Lex are somewhat special cases; they each divide a
file into three sections of equal status, rather than there being a
containing mode and sections contained within it.
> Which reminds me that the first island in the Bison input file
> has no string to "open" it. It starts at the start of the buffer.
> And the third island ends and the end of the buffer.
A workaround for this would be to have the first section being the
"super mode" and containing the second and third sections. The
delimiter "%%" between sections 2 and 3 has space to hold both an island
close and an island open, despite what you say about this being
artificial, etc. I don't see there would be an absolute need for there
to be a "close island" mark at the end of the buffer.
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- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, (continued)
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/04/24
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/04/24
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Andreas Röhler, 2016/04/25
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Andy Moreton, 2016/04/22
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/04/23
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/04/22
- Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes, Richard Stallman, 2016/04/22