Re: [Gzz] New PEG: containment--benja

[Tuomas Lukka]

> >And I'd definitely label containment as an experimental feature; I hope
> >that doesn't bother you.
> >
> 
> Hm, to me it is a feature that has been part of the zzstructure specs 
> for a Very Long Time now, and I don't agree that containment itself is 
> experimental. 

There haven't been any implementations of it in real use, right?
It doesn't matter if Ted drew it in a diagram 20 years ago; if it hasn't been
used by anyone for anything, it's experimental.

> I also feel that we need containment itself now, because 
> we need it for the email client. 

I won't argue with that.

> I do agree that our way of implementing 
> it (which includes view options and edit bindings (but not the 
> containment structure)) are experimental, and I do agree that there are 
> problems with the 'p' keys until we have working editing across cell 
> boundaries.

Exactly. Which is why I'd prefer to have it disabled by default until most
problems have been ironed out. 

> >>I dunno, I'm ok with the 
> >>keys being optional for now, but I don't like your way to activate them...
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Oh, that was only a suggestion. Feel free to suggest something better.
> >
> 
> Hm, if we had a real command line program to start the client, I'd say
> 
> gzz --use-containment-keys
> 
> is good enough... maybe for now,
> 
> make run CONTAINMENT=on
> 
> which would then call Gzz.py as above?

That's some difficult makefile programming you're asking for there ;)

But any of these are fine with me.

        Tuomas