Re: jit-lock-antiblink-grace

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, João.

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 15:23:08 +0100, João Távora wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 2:33 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

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> > It's a backward-incompatible behavior, and is not being developed due
> > to bug reports, so why make it the default right from the start?  It
> > also slows down cursor motion (which should probably be in the doc
> > string as well).

> Regarding slowdown, we have to check by how much.  Regarding the
> pertinence of the modificaiton, there are mode-specific modifications
> with (IMO much worse) backward-incompatible behaviour being made to
> modes like to c-mode to circumvent precisely this problem.

No.  The feature in CC Mode I think you're referring to, namely the
correct fontification of unterminated strings is a static feature,
clearly indicating that the string hasn't (yet) been terminated, and
where its current end (as would be interpreted by a compiler) is.  The
feature you've implemented is, if I understand correctly (I haven't tried
it, yet) a dynamic one, where fontification gets delayed a bit to give
the user a certain chance to terminate an unterminated string before
fontification kicks in.

I would guess that your new feature is less needed in a CC Mode mode than
in modes where the fontification of a string extends to the next string
quote, no matter how far away.

> Perhaps you could weigh in on the pertinence of those on-by-default
> (and moreover impossible-to-turn-off) alternatives, too.  Although
> those other modifications target a reduced subset of modes, indeed
> precisely because of that fact, I think it's better that Emacs provides
> an effective and more generic solution to this problem.

I agree with that.  My view is that such a feature should be provided in
syntax.c and the font locking system, such that a major mode can specify
that unterminated strings are to be regarded as terminated by an
unescaped new line.

I think I said this before, off hand, but it didn't go anywhere.

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> João

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).