Re: [Boost-docs] [Quickbook] Templates and Namespaces

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [Quickbook] Templates and Namespaces
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-02 18:00:26

on Thu Aug 02 2007, Bjørn Roald <bjorn-AT-4roald.org> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Wed Aug 01 2007, Joel de Guzman <joel-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> I dunno. I kinda prefer the block syntax. Works nice if your editor can 
>>>> do brace matching, which would make it easy to select a whole section 
>>>> and move it elsewhere.
>>>>       
>>> Can't your editor be configured to match [section][endsect] too?
>>> Many editors can. 
>>>     
>>
>> I use emacs so it can do anything.  But the point is I don't want to
>> have to configure anything.  "Every editor on the planet" can match [
>> and ] OOTB.
>>
>>   
> This only takes you a bit on the way.  Code snippets and comments may be 
> unbalanced at least when viewed as general text, contained strings, 
> comments and '[' and ']' characters need to be ignored.  So what is 
> needed even with emacs is a quicbook mode.  

Voila.  But it sometimes has real performance problems.  Emacs modes
are really hard to write.



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