From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
Cc: 4030@debbugs.gnu.org, era+emacsbugs@iki.fi
Subject: bug#4030: forward-sexp parses character literal ?; as comment
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:31:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh9crcebx.fsf-monnier+bug#4030@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21t3vb1l0.fsf@Andrews-MacBook-Pro.local> (Andrew Hyatt's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2016 23:47:07 -0400")
> Does anyone have any further thoughts? It wasn't clear to me from this
> discussion whether there was any consensus that this was actually a bug
> or not.
With the support for syntax-fontification "on-the-fly" within
forward-sexp, we could actually make forward-sexp handle those
cases correctly nowadays.
So we can either:
- make it work with a syntax-propertize-function. Not sure it's worth
the cost.
- deprecate ?; and friends, probably adding font-lock highlights to help
spot the problematic cases, and maybe changing the Lisp reader code to
warn about those things as well (with intention to remove support for
them).
- keep on living with this occasional problem.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-18 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 12:07 bug#4030: forward-sexp parses character literal ?; as comment era+emacsbugs
2009-08-04 12:43 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-05 8:17 ` era+emacsbugs
2009-08-05 14:29 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-06 8:55 ` era+emacsbugs
2009-08-06 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-07 13:01 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-10 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-11 9:17 ` martin rudalics
2016-06-18 3:47 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-06-18 4:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-05-13 2:55 ` npostavs
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