Re: Tokenizing

[Stephen Leake]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> - it should be possible to completely replace the font-lock-mode with
>>>> this mode, given a concrete language tokenizer;
>>> The intention for font-lock highlighting is to show
>>> syntactic structure.  In many cases, we end up limited to lexical
>>> highlighting, but that's a problem.
>> syntax-propertize provides hooks to let modes add to that;
>
> Maybe you use it for that, but it's definitely not its intention:
> `syntax-propertize' is not meant for highlighting at all.

Sorry, I meant "font-lock-add-keywords"; you can add arbitrary functions
that use the parser results to choose a face.

The parser does rely on syntax-propertize.

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-- Stephe