Re: [cedet-semantic] indentation engine for Emacs Ada mode; help getting started

[Stephen L. <ste...@st...>]

David Engster <de...@ra...> writes:

> Stephen Leake writes:
>> David Engster <de...@ra...> writes:
>
>>> Also, IMO there are too many indentation issues that are more a matter
>>> of taste; just look at how many comment-styles the cc-mode indentation
>>> engine supports.
>>
>> Yes. That's not a problem in Ada; the Ada community is pretty uniform,
>> so a _small_ choice of styles is adequate. GPS (the AdaCore IDE) only
>> has about 4 settings for indentation!
>
> That must be a nice community to be in. ;-)

Yes, it is. It's also a great language to write code in. In only Google
appreciated that, writing code for Android would be so much easier :(.

>> Back to semantic; I have a very small grammar written, compiled, and
>> running. Here's the entire rules part:
>
> Could you please send the entire .wy file? That will it make it much
> easier for me to test.

Attached.

> I'm guessing you still need to add some boilerplate, for example you
> have to tell Semantic what kind of Lexer it should use for Ada
> buffers. 

There is an Analyzers section in the -wy.el file output by
semantic-grammar-batch-build-packages, and I see appropriate tokens when
I step thru bovinate.

> It's been a while since I've written a language mode myself, so I'm a
> bit rusty in that area. Have a look at the small examples like
> wisent-calc.el. 

Doesn't look significantly different to me, but I'm clearly missing
something. I'll try running that with bovinate, as well.

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