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Re: Idea for syntax-ppss. Is it new? Could it be any good?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Idea for syntax-ppss. Is it new? Could it be any good?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:34:45 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

> How about reimplementing it thusly?:  The current syntax would be cached
> for positions at every N bytes (where N would be, perhaps 1024, possibly
> 8192).  A call to syntax-ppss would simply call parse-partial-sexp from
> the latest valid cached position, filling out the cache as it goes.  Any
> buffer change would invalidate cached values for N > POS.

Isn't that what syntax-ppss does?


        Stefan




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