Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.81; help needed with font-latex-user-keyword-classes

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> Now why is "\(P=\Sexpr{b$p.value}\)" working?  The \(...\) pair is not
> fontified syntactically but by means of keywords.  And fontification
> of keywords happens after the syntactic pass.  That means syntactic
> fontification can take care of the \Sexpr macro and mark it as
> verbatim (disregarding/skipping the $ character).  After that keywords
> fontification will mark the \(...\) pair as math.
>
> A remedy for the problem with $...$ could be to fontify this by
> means of keyword fontification as well.  But I am afraid that this
> will slow down font locking dramatically.

Is there some way of benchmarking font locking?  If there is, then
M-: (query-replace "$" '("\(" "\)")) RET

on a text with many $ signs should result in a text with many \(/\)
sequences.  That should help in benchmarking this kind of font locking
without actually implementing it for $.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum