Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue - Patch for beginning-of-defun-raw.

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

"Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu> writes:

> Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>> This binding should take place in CC-mode code; there's no
>> reason to expect all beginning-of-defun functions to run with
>> beginning-of-defun-function rebound to nil.
>
> I think this is a reasonable expectation: if the custom b-o-d-f
> wants to call itself, it can do so directly, and b-o-d-f needs to
> be bound to nil at some point anyways to avoid recursion.  It's
> probably less error-prone to do it in just one place, rather than
> letting each new foo-mode's foo-beginning-of-defun discover this
> problem for itself.

OTOH, there's no other place in Emacs that assumes that you should
bind foo-function to nil before calling foo-function.  That would be
considered surprising behavior.