Re: What about putting CC Mode 5.32 into Emacs?

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>]

Burton Samograd <bsamograd@interalia.com> writes:

> "Michael Welsh Duggan" <md5i@md5i.com> writes:
>
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hello, Burton.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:55:20AM -0600, Burton Samograd wrote:
>>>
>>>> I certainly hope that 5.32 fixes the indentation issues that I have
>>>> been experiencing with the lastest builds of emacs.  It's been quite
>>>> unreliable and annoying, although I haven't put up the effort to write
>>>> a bug report as I am running bzr emacs...

[...]

>> Have you looked at bug 9560 recently?
>>
>>   http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9560
>
> No I haven't, but I did just look it over.
>
>>
>> I have added as much debugging information as I could.  I currently have
>> an emacs -Q on my home machine which is in a bad-indentation state.  I
>> can leave it up for a few days.
>
> It sounds a bit different than what I've been experiencing.  From
> memory, it seems like when I'm editing code in a function, it loses the
> idea that I am in a function and loses a level of indentation for all
> code below a certain point.  Sometimes going up a few lines before the
> problem and re-indenting every line fixes it, but it can take a couple
> of tries to get it to actually work.  Other times I have to go to near
> the start of the function and re-indent everything.  Sometimes nothing
> works and I just re-indent it manually.

I have seen this as well.  The reason I have documented the one I have
is that I have been able to recreate it fairly regularly, and I am
hoping that the underlying cause is similar.

> I don't want to complain without offering a solution, but in the 15+
> years I've been using emacs I have *never* had a problem with C code
> indentation and have grown to rely on it to help me find syntax errors
> in my code.  Why it has unreliable is beyond me when it's worked so well
> for so long...I hope this wasn't just change for the sake of change.

Definitely not.  I don't recall all the performance problems the caching
code was added to support, but they were very real, and there were a
fair number of complaints because of them.  I applaud the work Alan has
done to attempt to improve cc-mode, although I do worry about the
complexity of the current system.

That said, I will file a bug every time I find a new indentation
problem after a new cc-mode update, whether or not I can recreate it,
especially now that we are in pre-release.  I want to make sure that
people using Emacs after the release don't encounter the same problems I
am encountering.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)