Re: Saving markup formats

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:

[...]
> What do you think about the idea of an Emacs mode based on properties
> representing styles as I outlined earlier?
>
> The tiny OpenDoc example:
>
> #("Nic Ferrier - CV" 0 16 (element h2))
> #("Nic is a hacker with some crazy ideas" 0 37 (element para style p1))

Unless I am missing something, this is just one possible internal
representation of a tree-like data structure. In fact, I have once
experimented with this. Its main problem is that the data structure
would get corrupted in certain cases, especially when yanking text or
when some Lisp function is using `insert'. One way to deal with that,
would be to let font-lock automatically fix it. But this seems ugly.

More importantly, I understand that Richard is strongly opposed to any
such kind of data structure. So this wouldn't make any difference. If
a tree-like data structure is o.k., then---given the sensibility of
maintaining the integrity of said data structure---I, as a user, would
very much prefer some solution at the C-level. At least in the long
run. But actually, the specific internal representation is a secondary
issue. The general architecture and the UI is much more important and
I don't see any room for agreement there.


    Oliver
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