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Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:09 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Would it be easy to modify one of these modes to handle all the Pascal
>> dialects we want to handle?

> This should be possible with delphi-mode if we limit ourselves to
> ISO-standard and Object Pascal, which I'm learning are the only two
> dialects still commonly used anyway.  That would cover source code for
> GNU Pascal and Free Pascal, the two major free implementations, and
> Delphi as well.

> In fact this is probably already true to a large extent and it would
> mostly be a matter of testing and rounding out delphi-mode's
> functionality.

One thing I'd like to see with delphi.el (other than renaming it) is to
use "standard" facilities like the syntax-table, rather than do all the
parsing by hand.

Do you have any idea what that would take?


        Stefan



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