From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting the Bovinator off the ground Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:29:09 -0700 Message-ID: <87lgrtrqoq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <8737e1tbtb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490477410 13089 195.159.176.226 (25 Mar 2017 21:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:30:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 25 22:30:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1crtG4-00020e-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 22:30:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38732 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crtG7-0000Bb-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40699) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crtFh-0000BF-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crtFc-0004oo-Vq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37030 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1crtFc-0004oe-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1crtFR-0006gD-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 22:29:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:t1e0bvKK+fOWIcAXa/GQotCCwec= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112653 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > [I was trying to send this to emacs.cedet, but haven't figured out how > to post there. Hoping someone here can help.] > > I'm running emacs from git, and have installed CEDET from git as well. > > I'm trying to figure out how to use language grammars, and am obviously > misunderstanding something fairly basic. I'm just trying to get a super > barebones Bovine grammar set up, and then trying to use > `semantic-parse-region' to see what it returns, and start playing with > it. Actually, what I'm really after is just a way of parsing regular textual input into a regular lisp structure. I feel like I'm continually shooting myself in the foot with regular expressions, and wanted something a little "stricter". I really like how grammars are defined in the Bovinator's *.by files -- that feels like the right approach -- but it may also be bringing in a bunch of of unneeded complexity: I don't need tags or completion or anything. Are there any lighter-weight approaches to this problem? Thanks, Eric