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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Delphi, Pascal, delphi-mode, pascal-mode, and free software |
Date: | Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:52:09 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Would it be easy to modify one of these modes to handle all the Pascal >> dialects we want to handle? > This should be possible with delphi-mode if we limit ourselves to > ISO-standard and Object Pascal, which I'm learning are the only two > dialects still commonly used anyway. That would cover source code for > GNU Pascal and Free Pascal, the two major free implementations, and > Delphi as well. > In fact this is probably already true to a large extent and it would > mostly be a matter of testing and rounding out delphi-mode's > functionality. One thing I'd like to see with delphi.el (other than renaming it) is to use "standard" facilities like the syntax-table, rather than do all the parsing by hand. Do you have any idea what that would take? Stefan
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