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Re: cc-mode fontification feels random
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: cc-mode fontification feels random |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:46:40 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:22:21 -0400
>
> >> 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.
> >> In C the situation is somewhat similar but for comments.
> >
> > So you are saying we need that just to know where the current defun
> > begins?
>
> Not really: the dependency goes the other way around.
>
> The real question is "given a POS determine whether it is inside
> a string or a comment or neither", which we need in all kinds of
> circumstances (sometimes we need a bit more info than that, of course,
> but this one is the killer).
>
> Approaches like `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start` try to answer
> this question without parsing from BOB by making an assumption that if
> something looks like a defun, then it is neither inside a string nor
> a comment.
Then I guess you are not describing what CC Mode does, do you. Which
is the subject of this discussion, AFAIU. Doesn't CC Mode go to BOB
_a_lot_, and not just to determine whether we are inside a string or a
comment?
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, (continued)
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, João Távora, 2021/06/13
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, martin rudalics, 2021/06/14
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, João Távora, 2021/06/14
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, martin rudalics, 2021/06/14
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, João Távora, 2021/06/14
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/14
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, Stefan Monnier, 2021/06/14
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, Ergus, 2021/06/15
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/07
- Re: cc-mode fontification feels random, Stefan Monnier, 2021/06/08
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