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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Permission requested to merge branch comment-cache into master.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:06:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160312140652.GD2572@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d472c88f-715b-1a99-53a5-6c9297893724@yandex.ru>

Hello, Dmitry.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 03:23:45PM +0200, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 03/12/2016 02:28 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > Could I merge branch comment-cache into master, please?

> I'm not John, but I wish we didn't hurry so much to merge experimental 
> branches into master. The curly quotes feature comes to mind, and how it 
> ended up very hard to back out of.

This feature would be easier to remove: changes in 6 C files and some
(two or three) .texi files (not yet done).

> > An alternative approach using the syntax-ppss cache has been discussed
> > and tried.  For reasons currently being discussed in bug #22983:
> > (syntax-ppss returns wrong result) and the emacs-devel thread "Problems
> > with syntax-ppss: Was [... Apply `comment-depth' text properties when
> > calling `back_comment'.]", this approach cannot work.

> This seems like a misrepresentation of the discussion in #22983. If 
> anything, I'd expect the reverse conclusion: it's quite possible to make 
> syntax-ppss stricter, and then base comments-cache on it.

It would require a new function similar to syntax-ppss, but with a
different specification.  There are some other issues regarding
syntax-ppss being used in back_comment, too.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-12 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-12  0:28 Permission requested to merge branch comment-cache into master Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-12  7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 10:08   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-12 11:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 11:50       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-12 12:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 13:11           ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-12 21:38           ` John Wiegley
2016-03-12 23:17             ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13  0:02               ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 15:20                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13 16:04                   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-13 16:12                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-13 19:12                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13 22:27                       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-13 22:52                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13 23:38                           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14  0:20                           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-14  6:32                           ` Andreas Röhler
2016-03-14 11:27                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13 17:07                   ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 19:04                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-14  0:25                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14  1:11                   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-14 13:28                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-14 15:58                       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-13 18:03               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 13:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-12 14:06   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2016-03-12 21:39   ` John Wiegley
2016-03-13 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier

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