Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[martin rudalics]

> Oh boy, I see my use of the term "fashion" has really tipped
> people's sensitivities.

It was rather the use of the idiom "We can use hacks like this one".  I
see `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' as a way to subdivide code
into chunks that may be edited and processed independently.  Currently,
we use a monolithic approach (one that works on the whole buffer from
its beginning) for fontification and a chunk-wise approach (as in the
default `beginning-of-defun') for editing proper.

I do not like, for example, that inserting a quotation mark somewhere
into a Lisp buffer, with some delay repaints the entire rest of the
buffer just to undo that when I insert the closing quotation mark.
Maybe these are bad editing habits but I won't change them any more.  So
for me `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' is not a hack but an
entire philosophy which, unfortunately, doesn't work with fontification.

martin