hacking-howto: point out that the parser is not used for the configfile (yet) (Thanks fernandotcl)

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Michael Stapelberg 2012-01-16 23:41:24 +00:00
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@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ all commands.
In earlier versions of i3, interpreting these commands was done using lex and
yacc, but experience has shown that lex and yacc are not well suited for our
command language. Therefore, starting from version 4.2, we use a custom parser.
command language. Therefore, starting from version 4.2, we use a custom parser
for user commands (not yet for the configuration file).
The input specification for this parser can be found in the file
+parser-specs/commands.spec+. Should you happen to use Vim as an editor, use
:source parser-specs/highlighting.vim to get syntax highlighting for this file