Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue - Patch for beginning-of-defun-raw.

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I still haven't seen any explanation for why this code needs to be in
>>> beginning-of-defun-raw.
>
>> Well, it doesn't harm either.
>
> Huh?  Have you looked at the beginning-of-defun-raw code before the change
> and compared to the monster it has become?  All this (apparently) because
> cc-mode wants to use syntax-ppss-toplevel-pos via this function rather than
> calling it directly?
>
> I want to remove that code and go back to what it was before, unless I can
> find a *good* explanation for why it needs to be in beginning-of-defun-raw.

I think one of the reasons it was put in there was because it doesn't
look like it belongs in cc-*.el either.  Since the code should
probably not be deleted outright (it seems to work OK for small files,
so individual users might want to turn it on), what about putting in a
function, call it "syntax-ppss-beginning-of-defun", in syntax.el?