Re: State-machine based syntax highlighting

[Lennart Borgman]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > A much better strategy is to start parsing at point in each file and only
> > parse a screenful at a time, doing this with an external parser would be
> > very hard.
> >     

I know nearly nothing about those things, but I have noticed that 
nxml-mode uses something I think was called an rng parser. It catches 
syntax errors in xml files as you type.

Is that something useful?