Generate major mode from Antlr source

Generate major mode from Antlr source

[Arjan Bos]

Hi,

Is there a package to generate the font-locking and indentation engine 
from an antlr source-file?


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Re: Generate major mode from Antlr source

[Stefan Monnier]

> Is there a package to generate the font-locking and indentation engine from
> an antlr source-file?

I don't think the ANTLR source is sufficient, but it would be interesting
to know if someone has worked on doing that (with some side help to know
what non-terminal deserves highlighting, for example).

Maybe a first step would be to generate a Semantic description and/or
to setup the syntax-table.


        Stefan

Re: Generate major mode from Antlr source

[Arjan Bos]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>Is there a package to generate the font-locking and indentation engine from
>>an antlr source-file?
> 
> 
> I don't think the ANTLR source is sufficient, but it would be interesting
> to know if someone has worked on doing that (with some side help to know
> what non-terminal deserves highlighting, for example).
> 
> Maybe a first step would be to generate a Semantic description and/or
> to setup the syntax-table.
> 
> 
>         Stefan

I thought about it a bit more, but it really is something that should be 
build into Antlr itself. I mean, parsing the file and creating 
emacs-mode code from it instead of java code should be more trivial than 
creating a elisp function that parses the antlr source from scratch.

But I'll think about it. Thanks for your reply.

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