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Using GNU Emacs 24.2.93.1 (latest pretest from http://emacsformacosx.com) keybindings to insert tags fail with void-function error.

However, invoking the corresponding function manually with M-x still works.

STR:

1. C-x C-f test.bbcode
2. C-c C-t b
3. See the error Symbol's function definition is void: bbcode/insert-tag-b appear in the minibuffer.

However, M-x bbcode/insert-tag-b inserts [b][/b] tag as expected.

Hi,

another older bbcode-mode already exists. This could cause conflicts. Here it is:

https://bitbucket.org/jfm/emacs-bbcode/

It would be nice to be able to customize prefix keys in case users would rather use something besides C-c C-l as the prefix for all list related tags, for example.

First off, thans for making this mode.

Maybe I'm missing something, but [lsit]foo[/list] works, but usually my lists loook like

[list]
[*] foo
[*] bar
[/list]

Which is not revognized.

If no mark is present then any tag insert command, e.g. C-c C-t b, will fail and Emacs will complain about there being no mark. It seems like this only started when I upgrade to Emacs 24.2.91.1. It happens with all versions of BBCode Mode.

Currently bbcode-mode only colors matching pairs of opening/closing tags. It doesn't color orphaned opening or closing tags at all (i.e. an opening tag without a matching closing tag or vice versa). This can be quite confusing to newcomers since the behavior is different from popular Emacs modes like xml-mode, html-mode and web-mode, all of which color orphaned tags as well as properly paired ones. (xml-mode goes a step further and colors orphaned closing tags in red to highlight that there's a syntax error, but that's tricky to do.)

As a related issue, bbcode-mode tries to implement tag pair matching using a regexp. This does not work properly with nested tags - in particular, nested [quote]s are problematic. It's very difficult if not impossible to properly parse nested structures using regexps.

In light of these points, I'd like to propose that the font-lock patterns should simply match individual opening/closing tags and not worry about pairing them up. This would make bbcode-modes font-lock behavior consistent with existing popular markup modes and would make the font-lock patterns much simpler to implement as well. What do you think?