From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vivek Dasmohapatra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.cc-mode.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [sigra@home.se: C++-mode: Syntax highlighting: wrong color for function identifier depending on the kind of whitespace that follows] Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:54:08 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140090928 4603 80.91.229.2 (16 Feb 2006 11:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-cc-mode@gnu.org Original-X-From: cc-mode-help-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Thu Feb 16 12:55:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: sf-cc-mode-help@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9hiw-000681-58 for sf-cc-mode-help@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:55:03 +0100 Original-Received: from sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net (sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net [10.3.1.7]) by sc8-sf-spam2.sourceforge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525C313BE2; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:55:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F9hiF-0004WT-D6 for cc-mode-help@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:54:19 -0800 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.44) id 1F9hiE-0003ww-A4 for cc-mode-help@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:54:19 -0800 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F9hiA-0006cW-Pj for bug-cc-mode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.52) id 1F9hnE-0006IE-EZ for bug-cc-mode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:59:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.197.40.8] (helo=seabass.pepperfish.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F9hnE-0006I1-2k; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:59:28 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by seabass.pepperfish.net with esmtps (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1F9hi4-0003Yp-4I; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:54:08 +0000 X-X-Sender: vivek@pike.pepperfish.net Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Original-Sender: cc-mode-help-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: cc-mode-help-admin@lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: cc-mode-help@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports, feature requests, and general talk about CC Mode. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:54:08 +0000 (GMT) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.cc-mode.general:3028 gmane.emacs.devel:50611 Archived-At: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I am convinced that, in the long term, we need an analogous, fast, global > mechanism for for locating and characterizing regions bounded by > arbitrary delimiters - in this case "<<" and ">>", but could just as well > be Texinfo's "{" and "}" or Lex's and Yacc's "%{", "%}" and "%%" or > "literate programing"'s boundaries between narrative text and executable > code, or "here documents" within a shell script. > > Until we have this, I think we'll be entangling ourselves in an ever > stickier web of ad-hoc workarounds. For what it's worth (sticking my oar in) I agree - and it would be even better if such regions could be arbitrarily put into other major modes... (although that's more of a blue-sky wishlist thing...) I believe mmm-mode tries do do something along these lines but from what I hear it's quite hard to set up and get working. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642