Re: [Caml-list] ocaml-mode-3.05

[Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: David Fox <david@lindows.com>

> I did notice that when I loaded a buffer
> in ocaml-mode the comments were not colorized properly, though when I
> toggled font-lock mode off and on they came out right.

This is a bit strange: when you load a file, ocaml-mode colorize the
whole buffer, just as when toggle on-and-off, or use font-lock-fontify
buffer. So the result should not differ.
However, as soon as you edit the text, colorization is done
individually on each modified line, and may come out incorect.

> This is also my main problem with tuareg mode - mysterious
> colorization behavior.

You're pretty much limited by font-lock's capabilities.
Which means no support for incremental multiline colorizing.
No surprise you encounter the same problems.

> I'm pretty sure the indentation will not be a big issue for me.

Then any mode should please you: in ocaml-mode colorizing is less than
100 lines (just regular expression, that you may twiddle yourself if
you want), while indentation is more than 1000 (most of caml.el).
There is a huge gap in complexity, because caml syntax is so
unstructured.

Jacques Garrigue
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