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Re: Proposal to make font-locking easier to understand
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Proposal to make font-locking easier to understand |
Date: |
18 Feb 2002 17:25:34 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Mackenzie <none@example.invalid> writes:
> The "syntactic keyword pass" should become the "syntax-table-property pass";
> . "syntactic pass" ................. "string pass";
> "keyword pass" should stay as it is, since it's self-explanatory once
> the other confusing terms are cleared away.
I agree that the names aren't very enlightening, but I think it's a bit
late to change them. Improving the doc would be more helpful.
> "font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search" should become
> "..-keywords-case-insensitive". This makes clearer that we're talking
> about a flag, not a regular expression used in searching, or a
> user-supplied function which is to do this type of searching, or ....
It's called that way because it's the font-lock-specific version of
the `case-fold-search' variable (which is also a boolean).
Stefan