From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multiline font-lock questions Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:09:29 -0500 Message-ID: <87mz6kzhmu.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> References: <87wt5udkgq.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> <878xi8d30i.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164141632 18296 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2006 20:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 21:40:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmcPg-0006vG-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:40:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmcPg-0001GG-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:40:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmcL3-0005hY-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:35:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmcL1-0005fL-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:35:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmcL0-0005ey-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:35:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GmcL0-0008Lu-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:35:26 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GmcKd-0005hr-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([216.15.125.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:35:03 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:35:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y45MigfoKSHeR/0LIHjDkYnP+mo= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62610 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > Can you try to adapt them for use in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual? > > For the most part, I doubt it; they're questions, not answers. > > They are suggestions for ways to improve that section. > To carry them out will take work by a person who understands > the font lock customization data structures. > > I hope that someone will do this, sooner or later, in order to make > the manual clearer. Me too. Unfortunately I'm not qualified, because font lock is still mostly a mystery to me. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com