Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 08/12/2022 18:04, Theodor Thornhill via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, 
> the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> syntax-ppss is used in a lot of places. A "free" improvement like the above wouldn't hurt.
>>>
>>>>> So my preference would be to check in the , the var will be there as well.
>>>> I don't insist, but it sounds like the logical thing to do.  So unless
>>>> you feel strongly against that, I'd say let's add that part.  This is,
>>>> after all, an experiment, so let's experiment.
>>> I'm not going to object.
>>>
>>> Doubly so if somebody else wants to finish up the patch and commit it with NEWS and documentation updates. 😉
>> I can finish up the patch if you don't want to 😄
>
> If you don't mind. Thank you. :-)

Ok, will do.  In preparation for that function, we need that variable on
the emacs-29 branch, right?  So here's a patch for that.  What do you
think, Dmitry, Eli and Yuan?  If this gets installed on emacs-29, I can
make the function we discussed on the master branch when that is merged.

Theo