From: Rasmus Villemoes via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 67173@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#67173: 27.1; support raw string literals in C mode (a GNU C extension)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:25:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f57309a1-437b-4876-9577-2fe269a626e7@prevas.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZVVE08ou8mW89b-4@ACM>
On 15/11/2023 23.23, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Eli and Rasmus.
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 15:03:39 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:30:53 +0100
>>> From: Rasmus Villemoes via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
>>> gcc, when using -std=gnu99 or newer, supports using raw string literals
>>> in C code. But emacs' C mode does not do proper syntax highlighting for
>>> that case.
>
> Thanks! I didn't know about that. I can't find any mention of raw
> strings in C in the GCC manual for version 10.3.0.
No, it's not mentioned anywhere, and I don't know why they don't
document it, but it's most definitely deliberate (see the
lang_defaults[] table in libcpp/init.cc).
>>> I do not know if that can be fixed by simply adding
>>> c-before-change-check-raw-strings to C mode's
>>> c-get-state-before-change-functions.
>
> That's the basic idea, yes, with another function to be added to
> c-before-font-lock-functions. But there are several detailed changes
> necessary, too.
That explains why my quick hacking didn't work...
>> Alan, are you looking into this?
>
> I am now. What's bothering me at the moment is that this is going to
> make C Mode slower.
Urgh, I didn't think about that. I agree that it's probably not very
widely used (probably partly due to not being documented...). I myself
only use it very rarely, and for now just use C++ mode for the file in
question where I noticed this.
So if "slower" is actually noticeable, I would probably prefer to
retract this bug report or ask that support becomes some explicit
opt-in, because 99.99% of the .c files I touch do not use raw strings.
Regardless, thanks for taking this up so quickly.
Rasmus
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-14 10:30 bug#67173: 27.1; support raw string literals in C mode (a GNU C extension) Rasmus Villemoes via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-15 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-15 22:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-16 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-16 8:25 ` Rasmus Villemoes via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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