From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Syntax ambiguities in narrowed buffers and multiple major modes: a proposed solution.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:24:41 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WQ9NUpzpgvO_TqUNERtiP0bAEc+-DehYx15yid-_vzCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170226120656.GA3811@acm>
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> In that case, we'd need some other term to mean what I'm calling an
> "island", i.e. a region of buffer bounded by island open/close
> syntax-table text properties, possibly with its own syntax table, which
> is syntactically disjoint from the surrounding buffer pieces.
In many languages, conventions exist for including formal
documentation in the source. In Elisp and Python, it is syntactically
expressed as a string. In Javadoc and Doxygen (used for C and C++), it
takes the form of a specially formatted comment. In C#, it is a
comment containing XML markup.
In all cases, the documentation has its own syntax, distinct from the
syntax of the surrounding program, and may benefit from local
bindings. Totally a use case for islands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-26 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-25 13:53 Syntax ambiguities in narrowed buffers and multiple major modes: a proposed solution Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-25 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-25 21:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-26 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-26 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-26 12:24 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-02-26 16:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-26 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-26 16:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-27 4:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-27 19:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-27 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-27 23:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-27 23:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-28 18:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-28 19:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-28 20:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-03-02 22:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-03-03 12:47 ` Filipp Gunbin
2017-03-04 19:41 ` Tom Tromey
2017-03-24 23:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
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