From: sbaugh@catern.com
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 11:56:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgx9rx7w.fsf@catern.com> (raw)
I was recently trawling through make-docfile.c and wondered:
Couldn't this be written in Lisp?
It seems like this complex parsing code would be much simpler in Lisp,
and there's no reason the make-docfile step couldn't run after Emacs is
built. It would be a fair bit of work, but I think the resulting
make-docfile.el would be much smaller and easier to understand.
I'm not about to go do it, but it would be a good self-contained
project, I think, so maybe a good addition to TODO?
Does anyone have any objections or reasons why this shouldn't be done?
next reply other threads:[~2021-05-05 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-05 15:56 sbaugh [this message]
2021-05-05 16:13 ` Rewriting make-docfile.c in Lisp? Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 16:49 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-05 17:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-05-05 18:39 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-05 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 19:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 20:05 ` Glenn Morris
2021-05-05 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-05 21:11 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-06 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-05 21:27 ` Spencer Baugh
2021-05-05 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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