Re: Syntax tables for multiple modes [was: bug#22983: syntax-ppss returns wrong result.]

[Vitalie Spinu]

>> On Mon, Mar 21 2016 16:29, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

>> Sorry. What proposal do you mean?

> """
> Instead, if you want to know what indentation an inner mode would return if
> STRING-BEFORE was before it, insert that string into the buffer (while
> inhibiting undo history). Call the indentation function, then remove the 
> string.
> """

Inner mode might decide to operate on string directly, or put stuff in a temp
buffer, work on last line only, or simply ignore it. Why to hard-wire the usage
of STRING-BEFORE so badly?

My gut feeling is to avoid modifying buffer context in indentation engine at all
costs. In the future, if performance with temp buffers will be a real issue, we
can add more low level functions for fast operation on string to do some common
parsing tasks. We can even extend parse-ppss to deal with BEFORE-STRING.


  Vitalie