João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 9:51 PM Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> wrote:
>
>> Also, have you considered throwing in a
>>   (not (string-equal (match-string 1) sname))
>>
>> to avoid having to call `shorthands--mismatch-from-end' at all?
>
> Where and how this be thrown in?  How would you know what to highlight
> in the shorthand printed form?  There can be many shorthand prefixes
> in a given file.  But do show some code.

Please see the attached patch, inspired by Jonas's comment.

>> Maybe you have, but concluded it is cheaper to do a bit too much work
>> for non-shorthands, than to effectively repeat some work for shorthands.
>
> Maybe.  Not sure this is more work (string-equal must still compare
> every character right?), but, in summary, I'm not married to this
> implementation.  I somewhat appreciate that I could still read it
> after not having looked  at it for a couple years, but feel free to
> change it.

I haven't done any benchmarking - I'm curious to learn how to benchmark
font lock though!

Thanks!!

Joseph