[SVN] Punctuation Scope

[David Powers]

Take a look at the OCaml Bundle - this is already possible by scoping empty
pairs differently than filled.


On 8/19/06, Michael Sheets <mummer at whitefalls.org> wrote:
>
> > It's mainly to give people something to scope punctuation as, right
> > now there isn't anything and people have been doing really odd
> > things. Some of the punctuation is keyword.* for instance. I think
> > the biggest uses of the scope will be snippets; having something
> > special happen when beside x for instance.
>
> Forgot one of my other ideas for this… ties in with a scope selector
> idea I've been mulling over in my head.
>
> Would be cool if we had a way to reverse the caret direction of the
> selector, ie: match the scope before the caret. Basically akin to a
> look-behind.
>
> With that we could have a scope selector of "punc.delim.func.ending (?
> <=punc.delim.func.ending)" to have a snippet overload return inside
> an empty {}. Someone recently pointed out that this is hard coded
> into TM, would fix that. Could get rid of some of the special empty
> matches and wacky meta scopes we have for things like this.
>
> (Not suggesting the above look-back syntax, just a dirty example)
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