Re: Syntax of Comments (was: language design tradeoffs)

liblit@cs.psu.edu (Benjamin R. Liblit)
Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:07:31 GMT

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From: liblit@cs.psu.edu (Benjamin R. Liblit)
Organization: Compilers Central
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:07:31 GMT
References: 92-09-048 92-10-014
Keywords: syntax, design

Marc Andreessen <marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu> has written a package for Epoch
(Emacs on steriods for XWindows) called Lightbrite. It allows regions of
a buffer to be displayed in different styles based, I believe, on regular
expression matching.


The Lightbrite distribution includes a syntax-table analyzer that will
produce comment-matching expressions. Other syntax features of interest
can, of course, be matched via expressions designed by the user. I
believe samples for popular languages are included.


Interested parties may FTP to archive.cis.ohio-state.edu, and retrieve
the file "pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/epoch/lightbrite-1.1.2.tar.Z".
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