Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> What exactly are the reasons that we need to scan from BOB?  With the
>>> exception of data type declarations, what else requires to go back
>>> farther that the beginning of the defun in which we start fontifying?
>> It all depends on the language.
>> E.g. in ELisp, what looks like a defun might actually be in the middle
>> of a string and there's no reliable way to know if something's in
>> a string other than to parse from BOB.
> Unless `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' is non-nil.

We can use hacks like this one, indeed, but it's not in fashion
nowadays.


        Stefan