Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  rudalics@gmx.at,  acm@muc.de,  dancol@dancol.org,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:36:40 -0400
> 
> >    static foo_t __attribute__((bar)) myvar;
> >
> > I'm not sure I'd care if everything before "myvar" would be in the
> > same face and "myvar" in another face.  IOW, it isn't necessarily
> > important to me that fontification knows that foo_t is a type and not
> > a keyword.  So searching the file (and perhaps other files) for the
> > definition of foo_t isn't important -- for the purposes of
> > fontification.
> 
> FWIW, my `font-lock-type-face` is customized to:
> 
>     '(font-lock-type-face ((t)))

Does that make CC Mode bypass those scans from BOB?