H. S. Teoh wrote:
> But this unification is also its downfall: plain text, as the lowest
> common denominator, also suffers from not being able to deal with syntax
> trees in a meaningful way.
>
> So what is needed is a way of plugging in arbitrary syntax tree parsers,
> such that you can have a generic editing environment which can handle
> any structured text, not just code, but _anything_ that can be parsed.
> You then have a basic core of text-editing operations, plus semantic
> operations that work with the syntax trees directly.
>
You mean like Emacs' Semantic mode?
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Semantic.html
Jerome
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