Re: A proposal for the future of open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > FWIW setting `comment-use-syntax-ppss` to nil is likely make things
  > *slower* in many cases.

In that case, we could arrange for open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start
to be heeded _along with_ comment-use-syntax-ppss.

I've seen several arguments which implicitly presume that making
open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start work again is impossible or
unthinkable.  That cannot be so.



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