Re: Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch

[zhanghj]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> A multi-major-mode package could use such a strategy, but I don't think
> we want to hard-code such a thing directly in font-lock and syntax-ppss.
> Instead, we should focus on an intermediate API that syntax-ppss and
> font-lock can use on one side and which a new island-mode mmm can use on
> the other.
>
If font-lock and syntax-ppss can be sub-buffer/island oriented, mmm-mode
will be easy to write. It just have to setup and maintain the island
related text propertis.