Re: A few questions about c++-ts-mode.

[Yuan Fu]

> On May 7, 2024, at 3:59 PM, Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> There are a few differences between c++-ts-mode and c++-mode that I
> don't know if should be reported or they are like that due to some
> design choice.

AFAIK, the design goal of c++-ts-mode is to follow c++-mode whenever possible.

> 
> 1. namespaces are not fontified like in c-mode (i.e in std::string the
>  `std` used to have font-lock-constant-face while `string` used to have
>  font-lock-type-face). It seems like tresitter identifies properly them
>  like (namespace_identifier) and (type_identifier)

Then we probably want to fontify namespaces in constant face. Or perhaps add a 
namespace-face that inherits from constant face.

> 2. Doc string comments are fontified like normal comments. It looks like
>  treesiter does not recognize them at all. Is this something we need to
>  report to treesitter or we need to workaround it in emacs side?

I’m working on that. I think the best way is to workaround it in Emacs.

> 3. macros like `#if defined(something)` fontifies the whole macro with
>  same font (the `identifier` used to have no colors in c++-mode)

We should update the fontification to leave out the identifier.

Yuan