Re: Why js2-mode in Emacs 23.2?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Miles Bader<address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> So I do believe js2-mode is maintained.  Also, while it it unusual,
>> I think it's a very interesting experiment in how Emacs could evolve
>> (similarly to CEDET).
>
> "Evolve"?  Is js2-mode's roll-everything-from-scratch code better than
> the existing infrastructure that it ignores (e.g. font-lock)?


Someone made nxml-mode use (a bit of) font-lock. Can't the same be made for js2?