From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CC Mode troubles and Emacs 29 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:52:32 +0000 Message-ID: References: <874jt0hw7p.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <874jt0hw7p.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21469"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 16:52:56 2023 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 1pEuSG-0005S2-7E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:52:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pEuRz-0002D3-0M; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pEuRw-0002Cp-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx3.muc.de ([193.149.48.5]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pEuRv-0003CG-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 95059 invoked by uid 3782); 9 Jan 2023 16:52:33 +0100 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15c37.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.92.55]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:52:33 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4427 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Jan 2023 15:52:32 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874jt0hw7p.fsf@yahoo.com> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.5; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mx3.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:302299 Archived-At: 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).