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I've recently fallen in love with Bison / BNF.

It struck me that using BNF would be a *really* easy way to set up
syntax hilighting for a custom format; ones more complex than
default-generic allows.

Does that sparc^Hk anyones imagination?  I'm not a *Lisp programmer so
I can only dream.

(BTW, please cc: to my mail address, as I'm only passing thru this group.)

-trent

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