From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New paren matching feature request Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:38:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233595263 27160 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 17:21:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 18:22:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LU2UQ-0006rL-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:21:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2T7-0004Uc-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2In-0003yq-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2Im-0003x8-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55003 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2Il-0003x0-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:09:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:15942 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU2Ih-0000dB-KL; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:09:35 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEAD+3hknO+IQk/2dsb2JhbACBbsozhBQGgmw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,366,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="33208408" Original-Received: from 206-248-132-36.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.132.36]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 02 Feb 2009 12:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 37BF1B4117; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 16:38:10 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:31:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108598 Archived-At: > I agree and I also think that Alin's right in that the best way to > do it is via parse-partial-sexp (suitably enhanced if/as needed). > Font-lock-mode already uses parse-partial-sexp to do > comment&string highlighting. > So the idea would be to modify the syntactic highlighting code? Yes, tho rather than "modify" I'd call it "extend" or "beef up". Stefan