From: Nir Friedman <quicknir@gmail.com>
To: 23501@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23501: Non-regex-based syntax highlighting
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 23:12:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+cBnHCR4qJpkr8z3nn1k5ts5NAJc-ynkuScd+9-9QXgXfGf4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I'm considering using emacs as a platform for C++ development. One thing
that seems to lag behind on emacs at the moment is that all of the syntax
highlighting for C++ is (as far as I can tell) regex based. This severely
limits the accuracy and discrimination that the syntax highlighter can
achieve. There are now some packages for emacs that use a clang based
backends to get actual AST information. Perhaps it would be possible to
write some kind of hooks or template for major modes that would make it
easier for package authors to change how syntax highlighting is performed
in major modes?
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-10 3:12 Nir Friedman [this message]
2016-05-10 15:57 ` bug#23501: Non-regex-based syntax highlighting Richard Stallman
2016-05-10 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-10 18:55 ` Nir Friedman
2016-05-10 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-10 20:16 ` Nir Friedman
2016-05-11 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-12 2:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2016-05-11 17:56 ` John Mastro
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