From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A yacc/bison that outputs elisp? Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:58:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5065e2900503280609880db7b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112022971 31052 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 15:16:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 17:16:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFvxr-0005Oa-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:15:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFwDz-0004Pu-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:32:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFwCw-00045V-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DFwCu-00045J-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DFwCr-0003oR-0W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:31:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.163] (helo=simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DFvhC-0003ni-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([70.49.83.30]) by simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050328145825.SFGO1614.simmts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id A3C3E4C9BD5; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:58:25 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Sun Yijiang In-Reply-To: <5065e2900503280609880db7b@mail.gmail.com> (Sun Yijiang's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:09:59 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35250 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35250 > Is that possible? Anyone had the same thoughts? I think it would be > very very useful for an editor to have such syntax-specific parsing > ability. There's a package out there that does just that (IIRC it uses bison and post-processes the C output to turn it in to elisp). Can't remember the name, tho, Stefan