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

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

On 24.04.2016 21:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> I tend to approach it from the other direction: is that handling of an
>> island as whitespace a satisfactory abstraction or not?
> It's not an abstraction at all.  It's a trick, a device to make
> adaptation to the island-world easier.  That text between two islands
> of the same chain should be invisible for the mode that's active in
> the chain -- that is an abstraction.  But no one says that text must
> be treated as whitespace -- this is simply a convenient means to reach
> your ends.  However, other means towards the same end might be
> available, onces that don't overload [:space:] with an entirely alien
> meaning.
>

Sounds bug-sourcing. Hard to tell which conflicts might show up, but 
there is some probability.


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