Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth

[Stefan Monnier]

> Slightly off-topic, but I'm a huge fan of "LPeg" [1], which is a
> pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars
> (PEGs).

FWIW, the "parsing machine" used by LPEG (at least the one described in
their SP&E article) is very similar to the one used in src/regex.c.
So if someone is up to it, it shouldn't be too difficult to extend
Emacs's regexes to something like LPEG.


        Stefan