Re: reporting nested forms

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Nope, like 99% of my XEmacs-related projects in the last 6 years :-( That was more the idea, yeah. My original idea (IIRC) was that the notion of major mode as it is right now is shaky/obsolete. The way to go is do natively (I insist on "natively") something in the lines of mmm. For instance, in a code buffer, you want text-mode in comments and <code>-mode in the code areas. There would be some kind of "meta-mode" to coordinate all involved (sub-)major-modes, but no <prog-lang>-mode should have to deal with the contents of comments in itself[1]. For that (and also to ease fontification) we would really need a proper syntactic analysis in buffers. Footnotes: [1] Of course, things can be more complex than that, for instance in strings where you would like text-oriented editing, but the language also has something to say about string syntax. -- European Lisp Symposium, May 2009: http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org European Lisp Workshop, July 2009: http://elw.bknr.net/2009 Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta