Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: arthur miller <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, HaiJun Zhang
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> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:45:51 +0000
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> Can I ask another related think: if I would to break the buffer
> in chunks to send it to different threads, how can I find an
> 'edge' (in absence of better term) of an expression?

You could use the syntax-related features we have.

> Say I happened to make a split in the middle of a comment, or some
> expression, is there already something I can use to figure out
> how to adjust split so I break on whole expressions, and not in
> the middle?

Look up syntax-ppss.