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Re: Wisent Parser for font-lock MATCHERS
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Wisent Parser for font-lock MATCHERS |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:04:09 -0500 |
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> My apologies if this questions is not appropriate for this list.
> Strings in ruby are very complex. They require a PDA and not just a DFA.
> I'm mid-way through writing a function to properly recognize a ruby string
> but then paused to consider perhaps I should use wisent instead. I've not
> used wisent before. If I'm going down a blind alley, please let me know.
> Or if there are samples of other wisent parser based font-lock matches,
> that would be of interest to me too.
> Specifically, my thoughts are to have a parser (or perhaps parsers) to use
> as the MATCHER function in the various font-lock lists such as
> font-lock-syntactic-keywords and font-lock-keywords. My fear is that the
> wisent parser is not going to let me hook in like I need to in order to
> properly create a matcher function.
> As background, I know about ruby-mode and cedet, semantic. There is
> a wisent attempt at a Ruby parser but it does not do strings
> properly either.
I don't know what a font-lock rule using wisent would look like.
But since ruby's strings are fairly similar to sh's strings, you may
want to look at what we do there.
The meat is in sh-font-lock-quoted-subshell.
Stefan