From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A possible way for CC Mode to resolve its sluggishness
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 22:53:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1fgwnkq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190426193056.GC4720@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:30:56 +0000)
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:30:56 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> (i) A CC Mode buffer will be partitioned into @dfn{syntactic cells}.
> These will be things like a section of code, a comment, a string, a raw
> string, a CPP construct .... Possibly even comment delimiters would
> have their own cells.
>
> (ii) Syntactic cells will be implemented by a text property, c-syntax,
> whose value will indicate the type of the cell, and possibly an
> identifier for it. Neighbouring cells will always have distinct
> c-syntax values.
Can a syntactic cell have other syntactic cells embedded in it?
Because if it can, you cannot use text properties for that, since text
properties cannot overlap.
> Thoughts?
Why do you think this proposal will make CC Mode faster? Wouldn't
computing and updating the cells in itself be expensive?
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-26 19:30 A possible way for CC Mode to resolve its sluggishness Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-26 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-26 20:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-27 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-27 3:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-04-27 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-28 17:32 ` Stephen Leake
2019-04-29 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-29 9:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-04-29 12:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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