From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info faces for strings and quotations
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:33:50 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410080033.i980Xog09658@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzyz13ch.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:53:18 +0300)
Juri Linkov wrote:
But OTOH, there are some places where it fails on legitimate constructs.
That is unavoidable. Info files do not contain enough information to
do the job reliably. The .texi source files do but using the .texi
files is taboo, because it would not allow the Texinfo language to
change independently of Emacs. The XML output format does. Oliver
Scholz is working on that.
While I think this feature is useful enough to be ON by default,
expect a lot of bug reports unless these problems are fixed.
That is exactly why the feature should not only be off by default, but
that in addition the user should be told that the feature does not aim
for perfection and occasionally can result in anomalous fontification.
The user has to know that these problems are a known and unavoidable
consequence of the heuristic, as opposed to fixable bugs, and that
filing a bug report would be futile. The user should know that if he
is not willing to live with these problems, he should simply not turn
the feature on.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-08 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-03 7:05 info faces for strings and quotations Drew Adams
2004-10-05 7:15 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-05 7:30 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06 8:34 ` Matt Hodges
2004-10-05 8:58 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-05 11:43 ` Stefan
2004-10-05 11:56 ` Stefan
2004-10-05 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 2:25 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-06 4:19 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 4:28 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-06 7:40 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-06 7:07 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-06 17:07 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-06 21:36 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-07 5:53 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-07 6:53 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-07 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-07 15:13 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-07 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-08 5:13 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-07 15:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-07 16:35 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-08 0:33 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2004-10-08 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-08 16:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-09 15:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-08 20:00 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-10-07 5:57 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-07 15:22 ` w3 mode Camm Maguire
2004-10-07 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-07 17:25 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-07 17:37 ` Mark Plaksin
2004-10-07 17:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-08 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-08 17:44 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-07 15:28 ` unexec development Camm Maguire
2004-10-15 14:10 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-15 14:35 ` Jan D.
2004-10-15 21:11 ` Camm Maguire
2004-10-16 13:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 8:44 ` info faces for strings and quotations Oliver Scholz
2004-10-07 5:55 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-07 7:13 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-05 16:15 LENNART BORGMAN
2004-10-05 16:28 ` Drew Adams
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