Re: Lisp Reader & Tools

The first #| inside the double-quotes shouldn't need a closing |#, so I'm
puzzled by that.

Is this text inside a file that also contains Lisp code?  If not, then the
Editor shouldn't be editing it in Lisp mode.

This looks somewhat like Forth, but Google doesn't find anything useful about
the case esac words so I'm not sure.

-- 
Martin Simmons
LispWorks Ltd
http://www.lispworks.com/



>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2026 08:27:02 -0700, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) said:
> 
> With regard to the inability of mere regular expressions guiding the text editor, here is a snippet of code that needs those accessory comments mentioned previously. Note the funny comment on the first line “— |# |#”. That was needed so that the Editor wouldn’t get confused by all the vertical nbars in the code on the left...
> 
> (	   
> : skipper     
>      case { "#|"      string= } { [compile] #|  }  -- |# |#
>           { ";;"      string= } { [compile] ;;  }
>           { ";;;"     string= } { [compile] ;;; }
>           { "--"      string= } { [compile] --  }
>           { "("       string= } { [compile] (   }
>           { "#+IF"    string= } { skip-to-fi    }
>           { "#-IF"    string= } { skip-to-fi    }
>           { "\""      string= } { skip-quote    }
>           { ".\""     string= } { skip-quote    }
>           { "error\"" string= } { skip-quote    }
>       esac ;
> 

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