From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: jit-lock-antiblink-grace Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:47:32 +0000 Message-ID: <20191012154732.GA9818@ACM> References: <834l0enw8c.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2xqm6m4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="266982"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_T=E1vora?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 17:47:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iJJcV-0017M3-Mn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:47:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34408 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJJcT-0005Oj-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iJJcN-0005OO-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJJcM-0003UW-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:56927 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iJJcM-0003Ty-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 38875 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Oct 2019 15:47:37 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p2E5D584B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [46.93.88.75]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:47:33 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9872 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Oct 2019 15:47:32 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:240924 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 10:13:42 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [ .... ] > > It's a backward-incompatible behavior, and is not being developed due > > to bug reports, > It was developed because people like Alan are so bothered by the > flashing that they're going through lengths to find other ways to > avoid it. Who, me? The flashing bothers me not at all, though there will surely be people it does bother. I think you're referring to the feature in CC Mode where unterminated strings are font-locked to match their error syntax, i.e. the string face ends at the next unescaped EOL. This is a static feature, not a dynamic one like Joćo has just developed. The two features are not closely related. [ .... ] > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).