Re: [Bug-zile] Nested buffers

[Reuben Thomas]

On 13 February 2014 23:56, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:

Right, that all makes perfect sense.  But, by "elaboration" I was angling for some specific steps to move forwards towards your vision.

Pretty much the only thing I've done is:

https://github.com/rrthomas/lua-rrtlib/blob/master/rrt/fstable.lua

 

For example, once I'm back to the point that zz is virtually merged into the combined tree at master HEAD, I want to rewrite the syntax highlighter over LPeg, but maintaining the TextMate inspired nested syntaxes.  I wonder whether this is close enough to what you envision that we might be part way to an implementation of a buffer that knows enough about the context of what it holds that you get some of the nested buffer features you want without the actual nesting?

Quite possibly: enough to do the presentation without the actual underlying model?!

 

Perhaps if you describe a specific user story for interacting with a completed nested buffer implementation, we can figure out some of the early steps needed to move in that direction?

I'll think about it.

 

We do?

I don't mean Lisp interpreters in Lua, I mean Lisp interpreters. e.g. why not use Guile or some other Lisp?

Anyway, glad to hear you're making so much progress.

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