From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: cc-mode fontification feels random
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:18:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YS0u+eJMSx3WD+b7@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcfeb678-5055-3d1d-d81a-989987398ac4@piermont.com>
Hello, Perry.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 15:03:43 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On 8/30/21 14:50, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >> For years and years now, I've been thinking we just need more
> >> deterministic parser-and-based mode support, and I still think that, but
> >> on a realistic level, that doesn't seem to be coming any time soon.
> I note that Tree Sitter integration is in active development now...
Yes. At some time in the future it will work, presumably well.
> >> In the meantime, is there any general approach we might be able to use
> >> to get stuff like the attached to stop happening?
> > Here, "stuff like the attached" was having some types correctly
> > fontified, others not. This was due to the order, somewhat random, in
> > which a type is recognised as such and entered into a CC Mode table, and
> > its use being scanned in a jit-lock chunk.
> > The following patch is an attempt to improve this situation.
> I think we are inevitably hitting the wall here, because it is not
> possible to parse a context free grammar with regular expressions. One
> can only move around the suck, one can't actually remove it without
> parsing the underlying language.
I'm not aiming at perfection. It's a fairly simple hack whose aim is to
reduce the level of Daniel's (and others') irritation. I think there's
now a general understanding that parsing the language is needed for
accurate fontification (and indentation). But that is some way off,
yet.
> Perry
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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2021-06-04 3:16 cc-mode fontification feels random Daniel Colascione
2021-06-04 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 7:10 ` Theodor Thornhill
2021-06-04 10:08 ` João Távora
2021-06-04 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 10:59 ` Philipp
2021-06-04 11:05 ` João Távora
2021-06-04 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 12:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-06-04 13:46 ` João Távora
2021-06-04 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 16:43 ` Jim Porter
[not found] ` <83k0n9l9pv.fsf@gnu.org>
2021-06-04 19:41 ` Jim Porter
2021-06-04 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 20:05 ` Jim Porter
2021-06-04 20:11 ` Joost Kremers
2021-06-05 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 10:14 ` Joost Kremers
2021-06-05 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 12:12 ` Joost Kremers
2021-06-05 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-05 17:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-05 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-05 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 18:46 ` João Távora
2021-06-05 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 9:32 ` João Távora
2021-06-05 9:59 ` Ergus
2021-06-05 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 11:55 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-05 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 17:59 ` Jim Porter
2021-06-05 18:56 ` Daniel Martín
2021-06-05 12:43 ` Ergus
2021-06-05 13:59 ` Remote GUI Emacs really works (was: cc-mode fontification feels random) Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-05 11:25 ` cc-mode fontification feels random Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 9:46 ` Ergus
2021-06-05 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 20:14 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-04 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 10:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-04 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 10:34 ` João Távora
2021-06-04 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-04 18:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-04 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 19:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-04 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 19:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-04 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 0:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-05 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 19:26 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-04 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-04 10:42 ` Ergus
2021-06-04 15:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-04 18:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-06 11:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-06 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 12:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-06 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 14:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-06 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-06 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-06 18:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-06 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-06 20:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-06 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-06 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 20:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-07 7:35 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-07 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-07 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 0:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-08 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-07 15:58 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-08 4:01 ` Richard Stallman
2021-06-08 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-08 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 16:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-08 18:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-08 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 18:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-08 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 18:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-09 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 18:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-09 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 20:07 ` chad
2021-06-10 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 20:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-06-09 21:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-10 2:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-10 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 6:58 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-10 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 16:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-10 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 17:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-10 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 17:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-10 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 17:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-10 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 16:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-11 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-11 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-11 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-11 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-11 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 19:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-11 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-11 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-11 23:25 ` Ergus
2021-06-11 23:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-12 1:08 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 11:07 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 11:01 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 15:04 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 15:23 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 5:20 ` Theodor Thornhill
2021-06-12 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 15:56 ` Theodor Thornhill
2021-06-12 16:59 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 17:51 ` Theodor Thornhill
2021-06-12 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 17:53 ` Theodor Thornhill
2021-06-12 17:54 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 18:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-12 18:39 ` Ergus
2021-06-12 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 20:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-12 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 8:00 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-12 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 9:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-11 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-11 18:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-10 17:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-10 17:39 ` andrés ramírez
2021-06-10 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-11 6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 15:16 ` Ergus
2021-06-10 15:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-06-10 19:06 ` Ergus
2021-06-10 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 21:56 ` Ergus
2021-06-10 15:59 ` Jim Porter
2021-06-10 21:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-11 20:21 ` Ergus
2021-06-11 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-11 20:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-11 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 8:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-12 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-12 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-12 8:47 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-06-12 8:57 ` tomas
2021-06-12 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-09 19:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-09 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 20:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-09 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-10 7:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-10 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 2:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-19 9:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-19 15:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-09 14:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-07-11 18:12 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-15 18:13 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-15 22:43 ` Tree Sitter (was Re: cc-mode fontification feels random) Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-19 23:49 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-20 14:53 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-21 0:04 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-21 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-21 14:43 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-21 16:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-07-21 19:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-22 1:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-07-22 13:18 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-22 13:49 ` Yuan Fu
2021-07-24 20:05 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-07-25 0:41 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-07-26 4:24 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-07-25 18:01 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-22 14:00 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-24 1:17 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-25 16:13 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-25 19:52 ` Ada (was Re: Tree Sitter) Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-26 5:05 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-26 9:42 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-26 14:01 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-26 13:45 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-27 0:26 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-27 12:38 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-26 2:23 ` Tree Sitter (was Re: cc-mode fontification feels random) John Yates
2021-07-24 19:59 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-24 21:21 ` OFF-TOPIC: Ada availability (was: Tree Sitter) Óscar Fuentes
2021-07-25 7:31 ` tomas
2021-06-08 18:11 ` cc-mode fontification feels random Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-09 3:39 ` Richard Stallman
2021-06-09 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-09 13:14 ` `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start` (was: cc-mode fontification feels random) Stefan Monnier
2021-06-09 15:15 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-09 15:16 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-12 17:29 ` cc-mode fontification feels random João Távora
2021-06-13 8:50 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-13 9:05 ` João Távora
2021-06-13 9:39 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-13 10:06 ` João Távora
2021-06-13 14:52 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-13 15:25 ` João Távora
2021-06-14 8:29 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-14 8:40 ` João Távora
2021-06-14 9:00 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-14 9:14 ` João Távora
2021-06-14 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-14 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-15 22:38 ` Ergus
2021-06-07 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-08 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-06-08 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-05 20:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-06-06 11:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-06-06 17:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-30 18:50 ` [PATCH] " Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-30 19:03 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-08-30 19:18 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2021-08-30 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 19:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-08-30 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-31 10:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-31 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 16:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-31 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 16:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-31 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-31 21:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-31 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-22 20:13 ` [Committed PATCH] " Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-24 20:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-31 13:18 ` [PATCH] " Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-30 20:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-08-31 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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