Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > Ragel http://www.complang.org/ragel/ is a tool that integrates regular > expressions and state machines under one umbrella. > It has backends currently for C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby. > I do not think having an elisp backend would be a very big task. > > After that (in my estimate) org-mode code would (could) become half as > long and twice as fast -- at least those sections that are heavily > regex oriented
I took the freedom to add your (slightly modified) proposal to the GSoC 2012 ideas page: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/orgmode-gsoc2012-ideas.html -- cheers, Thorsten
