Hey Bastien! >Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"?
I think Nick pretty much nailed down the description of what a grammar would be. I'm not well-versed in compiler-theory and my real world experience with parsers are limited - I made some pretty hackish parsers in the past but none used a grammar or parser-generator, though. If having a grammer is so hard, then I think I will just use the elisp regexp-based parsing implementation as a reference :) @Eric: I would only need some basic syntax highlighting and tab / space handling, as well as folding. I don't mean to implement an online version of the org, since the best place to use org will always be emacs ... or not. Let's see how it goes, I will keep you guys posted. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Bastien <b...@altern.org> wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm creating a web app that interacts with orgmode files and allows > > you to edit orgmode files on the browser. The edit part is not done. > > Wow, this would be a really useful tool. Can't wait to test this! > > > I'm quite good at Javascript, and I wouldn't mind hacking something > > akin to orgmode elisp code and this will be what I'll do if > > everything else fails, but wouldn't using a grammar be a cleaner and > > more elegant solution? > > Can you tell more about what you mean by "grammar"? > > Back in february, at FOSDEM, someone asked for a description of the > org-mode format specification. This is still something that needs to be > done. Any stab at this (on Worg) would be really nice. You can start > anywhere (headlines, TODO keywords, etc.) > > If the "grammar" needs to be described in a specific format (more than > just a formal description of the various syntactic elements of an Org > file), let us know. > > Thanks, > > -- > Bastien >
