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Unfortunately, you can't really use a parser generator for editors and IDEs, unless they're structured editors. If they're not structured editors, then the pars
by wtetzner 11y ago
Unfortunately, you can't really use a parser generator for editors and IDEs, unless they're structured editors. If they're not structured editors, then the parser has to be able to gracefully handle broken parses.
- ltratt 11y agoIncremental parsing is designed for just this use case. The last major work in the area that I know of is Tim Wagner's PhD thesis http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/harmonia/papers/twagner-thesis.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/harmonia/papers...