From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 29263@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29263: 26.0.90; Regression in doc-string highlighting
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 07:20:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y3ncm5tr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c1ef01a-2739-4f8a-b3c1-103ca80902fa@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:57:33 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:57:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> Starting with Emacs 26 this highlights the backslashes differently from
> the rest of the doc string (using face `font-lock-warning-face').
>
> This is totally inappropriate. Emacs is trying to be too clever here.
> A backslash before `*' or a paren can mean any number of different
> things in a doc string.
>
> Consider this bit of a doc string, for instance:
>
> When both optional args are non-nil, the `find' command run is this:
>
> find . -mindepth MIN-DEPTH -maxdepth MAX-DEPTH
> \\( -path \*edir1\* -o -path \*edir2\* ... \\)
> -prune -o \\( ARGS \\) LS-SWITCHES"
>
> It makes zero sense for `\*' here to have its backslash highlighted.
The reason will show itself if you move the mouse pointer on those
backslashes.
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2017-11-11 21:57 bug#29263: 26.0.90; Regression in doc-string highlighting Drew Adams
2017-11-12 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2017-11-12 5:31 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-12 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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