Re:Commercial-Emacs
by frou_dh on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:07PM
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Dunno about the overall ceiling of Emacs' syntax highlighting capabilities. But the few times in the past that I've had reason to look at the definition of the highlighting for specific languages, the Lisp code has looked like horrific imperative rats nests.
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As with most things Emacs, there is no real ceiling to what you can do, because elisp. But as you observed, there's a reason that using syntax-table rules to write a highlighter has been called "black magic".
The sooner there is anything even remotely grammar-based for creating highlighters in Emacs, the better.