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Re: State-machine based syntax highlighting

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: State-machine based syntax highlighting
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:10:01 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) 
> As far as I can see implementing a data-driven GLR parser into Emacs is
> the way to go.  That way the parser could interface directly with the
> buffer.

You may be right.  After all, a GLR grammar for a language can be easily
turned into a GLR grammar for the reversed language, so it could also be
used for backward parsing, which I find to be important for indentation.


        Stefan
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