From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Robert Brown <robert.brown@gmail.com>
Cc: 43001@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43001: 27.1; bad fontification of Common Lisp uninterned symbols
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:35:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kosdxw8.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPNkkpm=YcX6D+stPcVXGoReFJdFdzTKau1vnCuRg1uEN+XR9A@mail.gmail.com> (Robert Brown's message of "Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:08:25 -0400")
Robert Brown <robert.brown@gmail.com> writes:
> An uninterned symbol looks like "#:my-symbol". The change causes "#:"
> to be displayed with one face and "my-symbol" with another. That's bad.
> Fontification signals a semantic property The entire thing is a symbol,
> so it should be displayed using one face. What face should we use?
> Keyword symbols are displayed using font-lock-builtin-face, so that's
> what I would use.
Makes sense; I've now made this change in Emacs 28.
> Why I'm commenting on Lisp fontification ... Symbols that start with an
> ampersand character are currently being displayed using
> font-lock-type-face, which doesn't make much sense, since they too are
> symbols. Perhaps they should be displayed using font-lock-builtin-face
> too.
I think it's fine to use that face in Lisp mode (since it's largely
unused in Lisp mode otherwise). The face names aren't very descriptive,
though.
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2020-08-23 20:08 bug#43001: 27.1; bad fontification of Common Lisp uninterned symbols Robert Brown
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