From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: cperl-mode "fatigue"
Date: 30 Oct 2002 11:08:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lk7jzykn1.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: apn08c$2uus$1@agate.berkeley.edu
>> It's probably a bug in CPerl which raises a signal during font-locking
>> and which in turn turns off on-the-fly fontification.
> And due to an incredible design flaw, no message about this is emitted.
> This (and other flaws in the debugger w.r.t. "wrapping" exceptions)
> makes debugging the situation *very* hard. Several years ago I fixed
> one of such problems; it took *hours* to find the problematic place.
I doubt it's a design flaw (it's not that hard to fix).
But yes, debugging font-lock patterns can sometimes be very frustrating
and even more so with Emacs-21's jit-lock mode.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-28 22:43 cperl-mode "fatigue" Da Witch
2002-10-28 23:58 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-10-29 8:51 ` Klaus Zeitler
2002-10-29 13:31 ` Da Witch
[not found] ` <heather710101@yahoo.com>
2002-10-29 13:51 ` Peter S Galbraith
2002-10-29 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-29 21:57 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2002-10-30 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
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