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Subject: Re: cc-mode fontification feels random
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> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, <rudalics@gmx.at>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 12:05:27 -0700
> 
> ISTM we can only correctly do fontification of type references with the 
> help of LSP.

Patches are welcome to integrate LSP support, so that it could be the
main means of fontifying buffers.

> Without LSP support, I'd rather we not try to get it right,
> sometimes get it wrong, and make font-lock-type-face unreliable.
> (We can correctly fontify declarations and definitions I think.)

If we cannot do a reasonably good job in that case, then perhaps we
should indeed refrain from fontifying types.