From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Common Lisp support for Semantic? Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:44:37 +0200 Message-ID: <878vswnpoa.fsf@engster.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308606371 3866 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2011 21:46:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:46:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 23:46:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYmID-0005N6-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:46:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYmIC-00018y-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYmHy-00018t-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYmHx-0005iL-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from v3-1008.vxen.de ([79.140.41.8]:36738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYmHx-0005hQ-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:45:45 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From; bh=6nBkyg2VUPc8v9v+iSScH10+VlBzJnP/nBSWW0ATdgs=; b=iWHbAlJ2BbOQInTEIAvNLNZVdTjEa435KM396MGpCSN3Vwvq7RvKpY4Tp9hxYxyS2DZ2DUAx5fF4WCL3n9nXDCIkWz1ReFVm9B1YuxyOpFYtU6JDywkrJadWEhkhByPr; Original-Received: from port-87-193-163-220.static.qsc.de ([87.193.163.220] helo=spaten) by v3-1008.vxen.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QYmHp-0003y0-55 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:45:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: (David O'Toole's message of "Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:42:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 79.140.41.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140743 Archived-At: David O'Toole writes: > Hello there, I took a peek at the Emacs Lisp parser for Semantic > (interestingly, the file is named "el.el" :) Well, it was called semantic-el.el, but had to be renamed because of 8+3 name clashes. > 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? There is currently a thread in CEDET-devel regarding support for PicoLisp; maybe this can get you started: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.cedet/5179 I don't think anyone else is working on this, but it's probably best to ask on CEDET-devel. -David