Re: Syntax ambiguities in narrowed buffers and multiple major modes: a proposed solution.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Yuri.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 19:24:41 +0700, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:

> > In that case, we'd need some other term to mean what I'm calling an
> > "island", i.e. a region of buffer bounded by island open/close
> > syntax-table text properties, possibly with its own syntax table, which
> > is syntactically disjoint from the surrounding buffer pieces.

> In many languages, conventions exist for including formal
> documentation in the source. In Elisp and Python, it is syntactically
> expressed as a string. In Javadoc and Doxygen (used for C and C++), it
> takes the form of a specially formatted comment. In C#, it is a
> comment containing XML markup.

> In all cases, the documentation has its own syntax, distinct from the
> syntax of the surrounding program, and may benefit from local
> bindings. Totally a use case for islands.

Could well be.  Once the facility has been implemented, people will be
able to try out things like this.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).