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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Emacs Eiffel mode fixes?
Message-ID: <21211@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 91 21:11:13 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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Has anyone sat down and tried to modify the eiffel.el Gnu Emacs Eiffel mode
posted by Bob Wiener a few months ago?  While it is very configurable does a
good job of indenting Eiffel code, it is just _too_slow_ to use as a default
mode for Eiffel. Tab-indenting a line can take _minutes_ once the file grows to
a reasonable size. I haven't had the time to sift through the elisp and figure
out why its so slow - but judging from the amount of GC, I suspect that the
code is consing too much... Could this be a result of the elaborate regular
expressions being used to identify the syntactic context? Could this be made
faster (perhaps at the cost of a certain amount of 'correctness')?

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    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu