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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CC Mode troubles and Emacs 29
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:52:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7w4QKsgDjo4t+kv@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jt0hw7p.fsf@yahoo.com>

Hello, Po.

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 17:51:38 +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Alan, all,

> Emacs 29 is supposed to have pretests released in around a month.
> However, CC Mode is still prone to misidentifying typos as types.

Yes.  I can see my way to having this fixed in a small number of weeks,
or a large number of days.  The bug is understood.

> That is a major regression from the standpoint of users.

Yes, I agree with that.

> So, perhaps it would be prudent to disable automatic type finding on
> the emacs-29 branch, and to keep working on it in the CC Mode
> repository?

No, this wouldn't be a good idea.  It would be an appreciable amount of
work, and would leave around 50% of types unfontified.  This would very
quickly cause bug reports.

> Thanks.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-09 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <874jt0hw7p.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-01-09  9:51 ` CC Mode troubles and Emacs 29 Po Lu
2023-01-09 12:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-09 13:49     ` Po Lu
2023-01-09 15:48       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-01-09 16:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-10  1:05           ` Po Lu
2023-01-10 12:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-10 14:13               ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-11  1:36                 ` Po Lu
2023-01-11  1:46                   ` Po Lu
2023-01-11  9:27                   ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-11 10:12                     ` Po Lu
2023-01-11 13:27                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-11 14:17                         ` Po Lu
2023-01-11 14:27                           ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-10 17:37               ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-01-10 17:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-09 16:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-10  9:26       ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-10  9:49         ` Po Lu
2023-01-10 10:06           ` Gregory Heytings
2023-01-10 17:05             ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-01-09 15:52   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]

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