From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: acm@muc.de, 64204@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64204: C/C++ local variables not syntax highlighted if they start with $
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ttuz3dxb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg4rzplq.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:46:41 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, 64204@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:46:41 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I _am_ talking about fontifications. One of the main purposes of
> > fontifying code is to give the programmer feedback regarding the
> > syntax and semantics of the code. Flagging invalid syntax is
> > therefore important, and when $ are invalid in identifiers, showing
> > that with fontifications is important.
>
> But CC Mode fontification has never been intended to flag invalid
> syntax: instead of not being fontified at all, invalid syntax is simply
> fontified every which way.
It is fontified the way the syntax is interpreted, which is exactly
what I'm talking about.
> This is not a problem one option can solve; it will require large
> scale redesign of CC Mode, and detecting invalid syntax is more the
> forte of c-ts-mode anyway.
No redesign is needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-22 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-20 20:54 bug#64204: C/C++ local variables not syntax highlighted if they start with $ Joseph Garvin
2023-06-21 11:51 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-21 19:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-06-21 21:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-06-22 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-22 5:44 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-22 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-22 6:18 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-22 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-22 7:15 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-22 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-22 11:46 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-22 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-06-22 13:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-22 9:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-06-22 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-22 12:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-06-28 18:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-06-28 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-28 23:19 ` Joseph Garvin
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