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Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number |
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Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:36:32 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Hopefully at some point syntax-tables will be extended to FSM
>> (currently, they're trivial FSMs where you always get to a final state
>> after exactly one transition) so we can make them understand such
>> lexical details.
> Except that not everyone will want this. I still think that fancier movement
> like this should be done (at least initially) in an ELPA package for those who
> want it, rather than request a change to the behavior of Emacs core.
Lexing via FSM is "standard" in the world of computer languages, so I'm
pretty sure it'd be good/useful to add such functionality to Emacs's core.
E.g. it would improve performance and robustness of many SMIE tokenizers.
Whether the functionality is added by extending syntax-tables or as
a new thingy is of course up for debate.
And whether the user-facing commands should change semantics is also up
for debate. But that's an orthogonal debate.
Stefan
- forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Oleh Krehel, 2016/01/12
- RE: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Herring, Davis, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Andreas Schwab, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/01/12
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/17
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/17
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, John Wiegley, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Stefan Monnier, 2016/01/18
- Re: forward-sexp when on a floating point number, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/01/20