C/C++/ObjC Modes: Right thing now done with unbalanced string quotes and unmatched parens in CPP lines.

C/C++/ObjC Modes: Right thing now done with unbalanced string quotes and unmatched parens in CPP lines.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Emacs and Richard!

I have just amended CC Mode (in the EMACS_22 branch, but not yet in the
trunk) so that it does the Right Thing with code such as:

1 #ifdef 0 /* comment
2             second line of comment. */
3 #warning for isn't a keyword here. (
4 //#warning for isnt a keyword here.
5 void foo (bar)
6 {
7 #error }
8     printf ("Hello, world!\n") ; /* the famous one liner! */
9 }

In particular:
L3: the apostrophe no longer disturbs the fontification after EOL.
L3: the pseudo-paren doesn't mess up paren-matching.  C-M-n here has no
  effect.
L6,7: The L6 brace doesn't match with the L7 pseudo-brace.
L9: The brace correctly matches that on L6.

The fix works by setting syntax-table properties on all syntactically
"obtrusive" characters in preprocessor lines.  Balanced constructs within
these lines retain their syntactic identity.

However, the unterminated comment on L1 is allowed remain a comment -
there are lots of places in the Emacs C source where this occurs.

As always with such changes, byte-compile first cc-defs.el, then
cc-langs.el, then the rest.  After a change to cc-langs.el, it is always
necessary to recompile cc-{engine,mode}.el, but they've been changed
anyway.

If this change doesn't work, or causes any problems, please let me know!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: C/C++/ObjC Modes: Right thing now done with unbalanced string quotes and unmatched parens in CPP lines.

[Glenn Morris]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I have just amended CC Mode (in the EMACS_22 branch, but not yet in the
> trunk)
[...]
> If this change doesn't work, or causes any problems, please let me know!

It's a shame it missed the 22.1.91 pretest by a matter of hours.
I would think it basically means 22.1.92 will be required at some point.

Re: C/C++/ObjC Modes: Right thing now done with unbalanced string quotes and unmatched parens in CPP lines.

[Richard Stallman]

    I would think it basically means 22.1.92 will be required at some point.

I agree.