At 05:06 PM 8/16/00 +0200, you wrote:
>> At 01:26 PM 8/16/00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >yes indeed, with setting case-fold-search to nil, then doing
>> a Rescan, it
>> >works.
>> >But IMHO it�s not very good, if the whole stuff only works if
>> >case-fold-search is nil.
>> >There should be a solution regardless the value of this variable!
>> >
>>
>> This requirement totally baffles me. Java is a case-sensitive
>> language. So
>> how can a case-insensitive parser possibly work? How, for
>> example, can a
>> case-insensitive Java parser distinguish between "Class" the class and
>> "class" the modifier? I modified jde-parse to redefine
>> case-fold-search as
>> a local variable (i.e., in a let form) set to nil so that it
>> would always
>> do a case sensitive parse. Note that this change is entirely
>> local to the
>> parse. It does affect case-sensitive search in any other context. This
>> small change immediately cleared up a bunch of parse errors
>> in the files I
>> tested. For example, the parser in JDE-2.2.2 parses the following
>> declaration in java.lang.System class
>>
>> static native Class getCallerClass();
>>
>> as a class declaration. With case-sensitive parsing, it
>> correctly parses it
>> as a method declaration.
>>
>
>Maybe i you have misunderstood me. I don�t mean that the parser should work
>case-insensitiv
>but i should also work, if have set for my buffer case-fold-search to t
>because i want search
>in my buffer case-insensitive. IMHO it was the right way, to set
>case-fold-search locally to nil
>(with let...) in the parse-code, like you have described, so the parsing
>also works if a user
>want to do his searchings case-insensitive.
>
>But in the current release 2.2.2 this is not the case, here parsing only
>works if the buffer-local
>value of case-fold-search is nil!
>
>Makes this explanation things clearer?
Yes. The fact that case sensitivity is a function of the setting of the
global copy of case-fold-search is a bug in JDE 2.2.2. I have fixed this
bug in the next version of the JDE (2.2.3), which is not yet released.
- Paul
