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bug#1297: font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#1297: font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:44:01 -0800 (PST) |
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> > font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search docstring should make it more clear
> > that font-lock-defaults erases it.
>
> Okay, I changed it to make it hopefully clearer.
Thanks.
> > There is one victim in the tree. `lisp-mode' does:
> >
> > (make-local-variable 'font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search)
> > (setq font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search t)
> >
> > but the value of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search in a lisp-mode
> > buffer is nil, that's because font-lock-defaults does a
> > kill-local-variable on it...
>
> Great catch. No one has complained about this, so clearly it's OK for
> font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search to be nil. I removed the bogus
> 8-year-old setting of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search.
But that's not quite right, not sure about the standard, but there are
lisps that are case insensitive:
(DEFUN foo (arg)
blah)
ought to be fontified the same was as:
(defun foo (arg)
blah)