Re: Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch

[zhanghj]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

>
> Multiple-major-mode code?  Narrowing is not a good way of doing this,
> and I propose a better way.
>
>> > If I understand correctly, the problem is that multiple-major-mode modes
>> > are trying to use narrowing to get a null syntactic context.  They are
>> > trying this because we don't provide anything better.  We should provide
>> > something better.  I suggested such a something last spring ("islands").
>
>> You suggested implementing a big, ambiguously defined feature.
>
> It was big, yes, but reasonably well defined.  What I really meant in my
> last paragraph was that the syntax bits of "islands" should be used in
> place of what is now done with narrowing.  This would introduce two new
> syntax classes "open island" and "close island".  "Open island" would
> stack the current syntactic state and start anew, with a new syntax
> table.  "Close island" would pop this stack, restoring the previous
> state and syntax table.
>

How about adding two text properties like island-major-mode and
island-variables? All chars in the same island have the same values of
the two text properties.