Re: Formal description of Org files

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>]

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Hey Bastien!

>Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"?

I think Nick pretty much nailed down the description of what a grammar would
be. I'm not well-versed in compiler-theory and my real world experience with
parsers are limited - I made some pretty hackish parsers in the past but
none used a grammar or parser-generator, though.

If having a grammer is so hard, then I think I will just use the elisp
regexp-based parsing implementation as a reference :)

@Eric: I would only need some basic syntax highlighting and tab / space
handling, as well as folding. I don't mean to implement an online version of
the org, since the best place to use org will always be emacs ... or not.
Let's see how it goes, I will keep you guys posted.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Hi Marcelo,
>
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm creating a web app that interacts with orgmode files and allows
> > you to edit orgmode files on the browser. The edit part is not done.
>
> Wow, this would be a really useful tool.  Can't wait to test this!
>
> > I'm quite good at Javascript, and I wouldn't mind hacking something
> > akin to orgmode elisp code and this will be what I'll do if
> > everything else fails, but wouldn't using a grammar be a cleaner and
> > more elegant solution?
>
> Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"?
>
> Back in february, at FOSDEM, someone asked for a description of the
> org-mode format specification.  This is still something that needs to be
> done.  Any stab at this (on Worg) would be really nice.  You can start
> anywhere (headlines, TODO keywords, etc.)
>
> If the "grammar" needs to be described in a specific format (more than
> just a formal description of the various syntactic elements of an Org
> file), let us know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>

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