Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 11:39:50 -0800
> 
> Whether the language server is implemented as an external process, or as
> a loadable module, is an implementation detail.

That detail can be very important, though.  E.g., direct access to
buffer text is not possible from external programs, and likely will
not be possible, at least not conveniently so, from modules.

So I still think we should first consider how the interfaces
supporting the various features should look, and only after that look
around for packages that perhaps are already doing that.  In general,
with all due respect, I don't expect the existing packages to teach us
TRT, because they are doing stuff in Lisp alone, and that is
inherently limited and likely sub-optimal.

But that's just MO; I started this thread to maybe inspire someone to
have a second look on the related features and propose ways of
improving what we do today, both feature-wise and speed-wise, as I see
quite a few complaints about lack of features and slowness in stuff
like font-lock.  If people are happy with what we have, it's fine with
me, even if I disagree with the approaches I see out there.