From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for the future of open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start. Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:37:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20200405134735.GD5049@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="59534"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 04:39:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLHfC-000FNU-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:39:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53922 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLHfB-0002C5-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLHdl-0000dc-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLHdl-0004Fx-6I; Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jLHdh-0005Ld-Hk; Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:37:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 05 Apr 2020 10:33:17 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246506 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > FWIW setting `comment-use-syntax-ppss` to nil is likely make things > *slower* in many cases. In that case, we could arrange for open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start to be heeded _along with_ comment-use-syntax-ppss. I've seen several arguments which implicitly presume that making open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start work again is impossible or unthinkable. That cannot be so. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)