> > 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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
