Re: syntax parsing of non-contiguous regions

[Alexander Katovsky]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.  The reason that I want to do this is to make a 
major mode that supports embedded code (i.e. two major  modes).  I have 
a strategy for doing this that would be well suited to my specific 
problem and is different from the multi-mode implementations I have 
seen.  The new mode will be derived from the primary mode.  The 
fontification in the primary mode will provide a hook that the derived 
mode can use to fontify the embedded code.  This will work very 
elegantly if I can define the embedded code as a comment in the derived 
mode.  In this way, the parent mode will simply ignore the embedded code 
entirely, so that it will not interfere in any way with the primary 
code, and I can decide what to do with it later.