From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 17730@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17730: 24.4.50; (elisp) `Syntactic Font Lock': undescribed OTHER-VARS
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:20:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woch9bk0.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inyyae8z.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 01 May 2016 01:06:04 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Anybody want to take a guess at what this is supposed to mean?
>
> Looks like this refers to this thing described in the doc of
> `font-lock-defaults':
>
> "Further item elements are alists of the form (VARIABLE . VALUE) and are
> in no particular order. Each VARIABLE is made buffer-local before set
> to VALUE."
>
> Also see the following sentences.
>
> Maybe the docstring of `font-lock-defaults' has been changed, and a
> further version used the name "OTHER-VARS".
Yup; that makes sense. I've now adjusted the manual and added a
real-life example to help make it obvious what we're talking about.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-08 4:23 bug#17730: 24.4.50; (elisp) `Syntactic Font Lock': undescribed OTHER-VARS Drew Adams
2016-04-29 20:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 23:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-03 16:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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