[TxMt] more language grammar woe

[marios]

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> The reason there is an explicit test button is that, as some language
> grammar hackers will know, it is possible to create infinite
> (zero-width matching) cycles in the language grammar, which will make
> TextMate’s parser freeze (when using that grammar) -- so “live”
> editing of grammars is currently a bad idea (since an intermediate
> state could trigger the problem). The parser used for 2.0 will not
> have this problem, and so there is no real need to not apply the
> changes immediately.
I am aware, that this is very bad. I had underestimated the power of
some of these regular expressions. The reason, why it takes me so long,
to fix this for the txp
Grammar, is that a couple of other things are wrong as well.
So for me as a non-programmer the approach is the following: I
regenerated the core-modules of the language, and currently test them
one by one,when everything works I put everything together using
snippets and macros in plist.scope.
I am not getting any errors anymore right now, but it is going to take
me some time, as there is a lot of testing involved.

regards, marios

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