Re: (xslide) JSP support anyone?

[xslide S. <xsl...@me...>]

Wow, xslide-list traffic!

At 24 Jul 2004 10:49 -0400, Glen Peterson wrote:
 > Why add JSP support to xslide?  Because I started writing JSP at work
 > and crackhead-mode, though interestingly named, was further from what I
 > wanted than xslide.  So I did it.  You can check it out in glens_branch
 > of the CVS tree (under xslide).  If you think this is a bad idea, I can
 > start a separate project.  I think they actually go very well together. 
 > Just the name, xslide, doesn't really cover JSP.

I wrote an 'Ant' mode, currently called 'ante', by hacking a copy of
xslide.  I did it mostly for the imenu support so I could find targets
and subtargets by looking them up in a menu (or in a window when uses
the Emacs Code Browser).

 > Anyway, I added some fontification, and some auto-completion.  Tony, I
 > know you wanted me to use a data structure for auto-completion, but I
 > tried and it was really difficult.  Especially since there are so many
 > different combinations: optional parameters that when used with a tag
 > require it to be a quick close, or optional parameters that require
 > other parameters, or values of certain parameters that require other
 > parameters.  So I've given up on that approach and just hard-coded
 > everything.  Code is a data structure... of sorts.  :-)
 > 
 > I don't think it's quite ready for an official release, but what would
 > be required to do a release, Tony?

I'll try to find time to look at it.  Right now, I have to work on the
monthly release of xmlroff (after missing last month's all together).

I think the answer is to pick a day within the month and ship whatever
we have on or about that date.  I was going a long time between
xmlroff releases because I was trying to get it somehow more stable,
but the end result was that I seldom made releases.  Up until last
month, I made four or so monthly releases in a row because I said I'd
do a release on or about the first of the month.  Consider me an early
convert but a late practitioner of 'release early, release often'.

Regards,


Tony.