From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 21871@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Subject: bug#21871: Emacs Lisp Mode (at least): spurious parens in column 0 don't get bold red highlighting.
Date: 12 Nov 2015 12:44:49 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112124449.55828.qmail@mail.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2066.1447172952.7904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
In article <mailman.2066.1447172952.7904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
> In the Emacs manual page "Left Margin Paren", it says that:
> To help you catch violations of this convention, Font Lock mode
> highlights confusing opening delimiters (those that ought to be quoted)
> in bold red.
> , where "this convention" is the convention of not putting opening parens
> in column 0 when they aren't at the beginning of defuns.
> In Emacs Lisp Mode, this highlighting isn't done. It isn't in CC Mode,
> either.
> This is either a bug in the code, or a bug in the documentation. I
> rather tend to the view that this bold red highlighting should be done
> when open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start is non-nil. I think it did,
> at one stage, but searching the emacs-devel archives doesn't reveal what
> happened.
Thinking about it, this is surely a bug in the documentation. The only
way Font Lock (or anything else) could pick out an offending paren would
be to scan a buffer from BOB. This would rather defeat the point of the
paren in column 0 convention.
I'll patch the doc.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-10 16:30 bug#21871: Emacs Lisp Mode (at least): spurious parens in column 0 don't get bold red highlighting Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.2066.1447172952.7904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-12 12:44 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-11-12 16:36 ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-12 18:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.2173.1447351928.7904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-12 18:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-12 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-15 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-16 10:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-16 13:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-16 15:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-05-17 9:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-02 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-11 15:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2021-09-19 22:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-20 17:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-21 23:07 ` Stefan Kangas
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