Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

On 22.04.2016 22:22, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Richard.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:58:53PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>> The design seems to assume that every island starts with a
>> one-character delimiter that always starts an island, and that there
>> is anothehr one-character delimiter that always ends an island.
>> Is that really the intention, or did I misunderstand?
> That's not quite how I see it working.  There needs to be some sort of
> delimiter to start an island which must be at least 1 character wide.

What about keeping a simple index of modes instead?

Just make major-mode work on current indexed chunk only instead of whole 
buffer.

Cheers,

Andreas