From: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Release 6.17
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:45:13 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296.66.30.178.137.1231123513.squirrel@mail.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090104170210.5BBE434805@mail2.panix.com>
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> [...]
>> Without knowing what the enclosing `quote' form means, how do know
>> that
>> "((def))" is not part of it?
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> good question, and the answer is that is does not know,
> cannot know, because this is a feature that is supposed
> to work for any kind of example, an the parser cannot
> know all possible syntaxes :-)
>
> This idea is to make this work in a heuristic way, by using something
> that is unlikely enough to occur in real code.
>
> You are right that what I am using might be too
> dangerous for emacs lisp or other lisp dialects, and
> it could also show up in other languages like C.
>
> What would be safer? [...]
Perhaps it would make sense to let the syntax vary by source language.
Like, elisp could have something like ;;((def))\n and C something like
/*((def))*/.
Tom Breton
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[not found] <20090104170210.5BBE434805@mail2.panix.com>
2009-01-05 2:45 ` Tom Breton (Tehom) [this message]
2009-01-05 3:04 ` Re: Release 6.17 Samuel Wales
2009-01-04 8:13 Carsten Dominik
2009-01-04 14:33 ` Steven E. Harris
2009-01-04 16:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-04 20:24 ` Steven E. Harris
2009-01-05 12:32 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-04 20:58 ` Eddward DeVilla
2009-01-05 11:45 ` David Lord
2009-01-05 12:26 ` Rick Moynihan
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