Robert Widhopf-Fenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday, November 4, 2005 at 16:58:24, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>
>> Implementing a parser for this format in Emacs-lisp is not a
>> problem.
>
> We might also consider to write a bzr plugin providing the
> output in an emacs readable format, i.e. a list:
>
> ((modified ("FILE1" "FILE2" ...)
> (renamed ...)
> ...))
Yes, but the effort to write this output format is comparable to the
effort to write the parser for the current "bzr status" in elisp. If I
can rely on the output of "bzr status", then I'll use it. Otherwise,
/if/ I have to write my own wrapper script for status in bzrlib, then,
I'll probably opt for a lisp output, yes.
Otherwise, the parser will be stg like
(while ...
(cond ((looking-at "^\\([^ ].*\\):")
(action regarding a group name (match-string 1))
((looking-at " +\\(.*\\)$") foo
(action regarding file name (match-string 1)))
(t (error "...")))))
Performance-wise, that's clearly not the bottleneck.
The only problem with bzr status now is for file names with '\n' in
it, which would have to be escaped. Well, currently, bzr is buggy
regarding newlines in filenames, and no one complained ...
--
Matthieu
