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| From: | Andreas Röhler |
| Subject: | Re: Syntactic fontification of diff hunks |
| Date: | Sat, 18 Aug 2018 22:02:29 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
On 17.08.2018 08:47, Yuri Khan wrote:
There is also the theoretical issue of syntax being changed by the
patch — e.g. introducing an unbalanced multiline string or comment
opener or closer on a separate line.
(defun foo ()
+ "
(bar baz)
+ "
(quux xyzzy))
The middle line here has (punctuation identifier identifier
punctuation) syntax according to the “before” file, but (string)
according to “after”.
May go further saying: if a such a hunk contains valid syntax is not decidable. Because, even if it looks like, the impression might be wrong by missing syntactic context.
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