Thorsten <quintf...@googlemail.com> writes: > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Ragel http://www.complang.org/ragel/ is a tool that integrates regular >> expressions and state machines under one umbrella. >> It has backends currently for C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby. >> I do not think having an elisp backend would be a very big task. >> >> After that (in my estimate) org-mode code would (could) become half as >> long and twice as fast -- at least those sections that are heavily >> regex oriented > > I took the freedom to add your (slightly modified) proposal to the GSoC > 2012 ideas page: > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/orgmode-gsoc2012-ideas.html
Perhaps related to this proposal would be a project to formally specify Org-mode's syntax. I'm thinking this could be an extension of the truly remarkable formalization work recently undertaken by Nicolas in support of his Org-mode AST representation and exporter, but with more of a focus on specification in such a way as to facilitate developing Org-mode parsers in other languages, be they Ragel, OCaml [1], VIM [2], Haskell (e.g., pandoc [3]), or scripting languages to allow exporting without Emacs (e.g., a replacement for org-ruby [4]) for use at github, wikis or any website in which Emacs is too large of a dependency. Cheers, Footnotes: [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52736 [2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342 [3] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ [4] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-ruby.html -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
