From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 36432@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36432: 26.2; SMIE does not request forward tokens when point is at point-max
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:51:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALR_T9Cwde_5CfPaATpdLZ3yottcqoopq0gKgy50-jKBvHLG0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83woh4ftqk.fsf@gnu.org>
On 29/06/2019, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:34:06 +0100
>> Cc: 36432@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > ??? There can be noting at point-max, as that position is beyond the
>> > last buffer position. Did you mean the position just before that? Or
>> > am I missing something here?
>> >
>>
>> I mean at point-max.
>>
>> Consider this layout algorithm
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/tseenshe/haskell-tng.el/blob/tng/haskell-tng-layout.el
>>
>> and this lexer
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/tseenshe/haskell-tng.el/blob/tng/haskell-tng-lexer.el
>>
>> that can continue to produce tokens even when the point is at the very
>> end of the buffer.
>
> So you create an illusion of characters beyond the EOB?
>
> How would Emacs know this is the case?
When testing it is possible to keep polling the lexer until it returns
nil when at point-max, rather than looking at `point-max` and giving
up. I think that could work in general inside SMIE.
https://gitlab.com/tseenshe/haskell-tng.el/blob/tng/test/haskell-tng-lexer-test.el
I suspect the example forward lexer, from the documentation
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.html#SMIE-Lexer
would be ok in this situation. I'd be concerned that existing lexers
would throw an error if they were polled when at the beginning/end of
the buffer unexpectedly.
BTW, this also happens at the start of the buffer. SMIE doesn't ask
for backwards tokens when at the beginning.
> Why don't you also override
> point-max to make it consistent with those illusory characters?
Hmm, that is a workaround worth exploring. I'm not sure what the
consequences would be of changing something so fundamental. I think
changing SMIE would probably be easier, even with a monkey patch of
the relevant function or advice. I can have a go at trying to do that.
I just need to figure out exactly which function is doing the check.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-29 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-29 12:14 bug#36432: 26.2; SMIE does not request forward tokens when point is at point-max Sam Halliday
2019-06-29 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 12:34 ` Sam Halliday
2019-06-29 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 13:01 ` Sam Halliday
2019-06-29 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 12:51 ` Sam Halliday [this message]
2019-06-29 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 13:13 ` Sam Halliday
2019-06-29 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-30 8:50 ` Sam Halliday
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