From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: parse-partial-sexp parses only Lisp? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:59:22 +0200 Message-ID: <47F3C97A.6000201@gmail.com> References: <47F2B5D9.8060207@gmail.com> <47F347CD.1030707@gmx.at> <47F39F6D.7060100@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207159216 8662 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 18:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , Emacs Devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 20:00:47 2008 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 1Jh7GF-0002j1-0m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh7Fc-0005FY-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:59:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh7FF-00057p-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh7FB-00056L-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jh7FB-00056G-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jh7FA-00055O-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:63427 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jh7F7-0000tY-97; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:59:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080401-0, 2008-04-01), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Jh7F7-0000tY-97. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Jh7F7-0000tY-97 3686c08485dd6efa1c2066c35ef7d244 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:94217 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>> The first line of the doc string says so. >>> `parse-partial-sexp' only happens to work correctly in many other modes >>> hence I think that line is good. However, the doc string should mention >>> the "9th element" of the parse state and the fact that element 8 is >>> significant in STATE. Finally, the term "character address" should be >>> replaced by "character position". > >> Thanks Martin. Some more things that I would like to know (from the doc >> string in the future): > >> - What variables are used when searching for comments? >> - What do I have to put in OLDSTATE to make it parse comments and strings >> correctly? - assuming that I know about previous comments and strings and if >> FROM is inside a comment or string. > > The description of the output is also the description of OLDSTATE. Ok, thanks.