"Max Battcher" <[email protected]> writes: > * Lexers are fast. > * Lexers preserve the formatting of documents. > * Lexers are dumb, but recover quickly from errors. (Ever watched your > editor's lexers twist through error states as you type?)
Emacs, at least, does not perform "proper" lexical analysis (except perhaps nxml). That is, Emacs does not turn a stream of codepoints into a stream of lexical tokens. Instead, it invariably just uses a bunch of *separate* regular expressions to overlay faces on matching regions of text. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
