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Port syntax engine #66

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mtreca opened this issue Dec 14, 2020 · 0 comments
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Port syntax engine #66

mtreca opened this issue Dec 14, 2020 · 0 comments
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mtreca commented Dec 14, 2020

This is definitely more of a "someday" task than an immediate need.

After looking a bit closer at gnuplot-context, I realized that gnuplot.el provides its own context-aware completion engine by defining a subset of the gnuplot language grammar and uses it to parse data for completion. While this is impressive in its own right, I wonder if there are no built-in tools in Emacs that would allow to directly define the gnuplot grammar and would do the parsing for us, which would alleviate the maintenance cost of 2k+ lines of non-trivial elisp.

After looking for built-in solutions, semantic seems to be a viable option, and would allow nice integration of other built-in tools (eldoc and info come to mind, since this package manages these as well).

Now this is definitely not something I feel like I could implement easily myself (at least in the near future), but I would like to give it a try at some point to get better at elisp. If anyone else would like to give it a go, they are more than welcome to open a PR and/or contact me on the matter.

@mtreca mtreca added the Someday label Dec 14, 2020
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@mtreca mtreca changed the title Port syntax engine to Semantic Port syntax engine Dec 14, 2020
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