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Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support C
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x |
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Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:28:20 -0500 |
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:11:16 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As it is, except for highlighting string interpolation, it's great for
>> everyday work. So I want to know if there's any reason to pursue
>> SMIE--what more can it do for this mode--and if there are any other
>> comments on the code. If not, I'll remove the unnecessary parts, commit
>> it, and make a note in cfengine.el about the newer version.
SM> I don't have time to look further into it. The strength of SMIE is that
SM> it structures the indentation code in a way that makes it fairly robust
SM> (in terms of indentation when the style is unusual, such as newlines
SM> placed at unexpected places) once it works and also that the most
SM> difficult part is the parsing, but that this then can be used for more
SM> than indentation (e.g. for structural navigation, for blink-matching,
SM> hopefully in the future it will also be used for alignment (in the
SM> sense of M-x align)).
Well, that's why I did the work of extracting the full cfengine 3.x
grammar, so you could see if SMIE made sense or a standard parser was
better. But it really seems like modifying the standard syntax tables
plus a little bit of indentation logic works OK without SMIE, so I was
asking what else would I get if I put the extra work into writing a SMIE
grammar.
SM> But SMIE is far from perfect and is not meant to be "the one and
SM> only way to do it", so if it doesn't work for you, don't use it.
I want to learn it and use it. It's just not easy, so please have
patience. I'm learning OPGs from scratch.
Ted
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, (continued)
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/22
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/22
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/23
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/27
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/30
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/30
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/30
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/30
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/30
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x, Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/30
- Re: asking for advice for changing the cfengine.el progmode to support CFEngine 3.x,
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