Re: SMIE & transpose-sexps

[Kris Jenkins <krisajenkins@gmail.com>]

On Friday, 28 February 2014 02:30:27 UTC, Stefan Monnier  wrote:
> > And that this would be both jolly useful in itself, and proof that I'd
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> > set up the parsing rules correctly.  But it doesn't work, and I have
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> > no idea why.
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> It usually works for the "=" case but not for the AND case.
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> The reason is that transpose-sexps doesn't actually know about SMIE
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> tokens, so when it sees AND it has no idea it's an infix operator,
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> instead it uses the syntax-tables and thinks AND is an identifier.
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> For infix operators which are made of symbols (i.e. chars of
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> "punctuation" syntax), it happens to do the right thing, which is
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> neat indeed.
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>         Stefan

Aha, I see. Thanks for explaining. :-)

So...is there any other way to see SMIE's idea of the syntax tree for a given buffer, for debugging?

Cheers,
Kris