>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
Ben> dammit, why hasn't anyone written C code to properly maintain
Ben> syntactic context for the entire buffer?
It would be a massive pain in the ass to make it support font-lock, I
should think. But simply trashing font-lock is not really an option.
Also, Mule, as you know, trashes markers and things like that.
Presumably the syntactic context would also be at risk.
Ben> i'm also positive that this is a problem with well-known,
Ben> published solutions; in fact, i wouldn't be at all surprised
Ben> if there is freely available code to do this.
rm -rf xemacs
cvs checkout -d xemacs vim
Something like that? ;-)
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