Re: [Orgmode] Re: Release 6.17

[Tom Breton (Tehom)]

>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> [...]
>> Without knowing what the enclosing `quote' form means, how do know
>> that
>> "((def))" is not part of it?
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> good question, and the answer is that is does not know,
> cannot know, because this is a feature that is supposed
> to work for any kind of example, an the parser cannot
> know all possible syntaxes :-)
>
> This idea is to make this work in a heuristic way, by using something
> that is unlikely enough to occur in real code.
>
> You are right that what I am using might be too
> dangerous for emacs lisp or other lisp dialects, and
> it could also show up in other languages like C.
>
> What would be safer? [...]


Perhaps it would make sense to let the syntax vary by source language. 
Like, elisp could have something like ;;((def))\n and C something like
/*((def))*/.

Tom Breton