> > If having a grammer is so hard, then I think I will just use the elisp > regexp-based parsing implementation as a reference :)
By the way, that's what this guy did in this Ruby gem: https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby Cheers, - Marcelo. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
