[climacs-devel] Re: a patch for climacs (mainly regarding COMPLETABLY-PATHNAME) + a gimmick

[Robert Strandh]

Max-Gerd Retzlaff writes:
 > > (a) have the syntax name given by a call to the syntax (ie. a method
 > > specialised on the syntax and buffer, so, eg. lisp-syntax could add the
 > > package like slime does); and
 > 
 > I don't get this.

I think he is saying that, rather than just a string or some other
static representation of the name of the syntax, whatever will be
displayed should be the result of some arbitrary computation
determined by the syntax, which would allow for some syntax modules to
add more information to the display. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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