From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 17730@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17730: 24.4.50; (elisp) `Syntactic Font Lock': undescribed OTHER-VARS
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:41:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuu4p2pj.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7823b16e-d906-47b3-a05f-c094aa795555@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 7 Jun 2014 21:23:41 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> The doc refers to "an OTHER-VARS element in `font-lock-defaults':
>
> Variable: font-lock-syntactic-face-function
> If this variable is non-`nil', it should be a function to determine
> which face to use for a given syntactic element (a string or a
> comment). The value is normally set through an OTHER-VARS element
> in `font-lock-defaults'.
>
> Incomprehensible. There is no "an OTHER-VARS element" described
> anywhere in the doc of `font-lock-defaults' or in the link in the next
> paragraph (node `Faces for Font Lock').
After looking through font-core.el for several seconds, I don't have any
idea, either, what this is supposed to mean. This is the full text:
The previous version was:
-Specify this variable using @var{other-vars} in
@code{font-lock-defaults}.
and
-Major modes normally set this variable with @var{other-vars} in
-@code{font-lock-defaults}.
but vc-region-history on the doc string of that variable seems to say
that it has never talked about "other-vars".
Anybody want to take a guess at what this is supposed to mean?
-- Variable: font-lock-syntactic-face-function
If this variable is non-‘nil’, it should be a function to determine
which face to use for a given syntactic element (a string or a
comment). The value is normally set through an OTHER-VARS element
in ‘font-lock-defaults’.
The function is called with one argument, the parse state at point
returned by ‘parse-partial-sexp’, and should return a face. The
default value returns ‘font-lock-comment-face’ for comments and
‘font-lock-string-face’ for strings (*note Faces for Font Lock::).
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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2014-06-08 4:23 bug#17730: 24.4.50; (elisp) `Syntactic Font Lock': undescribed OTHER-VARS Drew Adams
2016-04-29 20:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-04-30 23:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-03 16:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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