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From: "Eric M. Ludlam" <ericludlam@gmail.com>
To: David O'Toole <dto1138@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Common Lisp support for Semantic?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:28:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E032349.9090901@siege-engine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=rN3gw7G+93H1v5tn1F40CvxTuiA@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/20/2011 11:42 AM, David O'Toole wrote:
> Hello there, I took a peek at the Emacs Lisp parser for Semantic
> (interestingly, the file is named "el.el" :)
>
> It seems that I could make a version of this that supports Common
> Lisp. A few questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone else already done this?
> 2. If not, should I start by making a copy of el.el and then changing
> it to work with Common Lisp? Or, should I try to make el.el support
> both languages by branching just at the points where syntax differs?

el.el already hooks into Lisp buffers and I have been told it works ok. 
  To get better lisp support would mean abandoning the Emacs Lisp parser 
all together as it eventually calls Emacs' 'read' function.

As such, Jan Moringen's suggestion is best.

Eric



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 15:42 Common Lisp support for Semantic? David O'Toole
2011-06-20 21:44 ` David Engster
2011-06-23 11:28 ` Eric M. Ludlam [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-21 17:49 Jan Moringen
2011-06-21 21:05 ` David O'Toole
2011-07-05  2:46 ` David O'Toole
2011-07-06 13:09   ` Jan Moringen

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