From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>, ats@acm.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog fontifications
Date: 13 May 2004 18:25:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7to3rog.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040513215623.GA14133@fencepost>
>> What on earth was the reason to invent such a convention?
> Because (1) it's more friendly to line-oriented parsers (like font-lock, but
> also external tools [*]), and (2) it looks quite nice.
Indeed, I strongly suspect that the convention was designed before
font-lock existed.
In any case we have to live with the fact that many projects don't follow
this part of the convention (and thus lived without complaining with
font-lock not highlighting things the way they wanted). I think fixing
font-lock to follow their use would go in the wrong direction unless it is
decided to change the convention. What would be better would indeed be
things like teaching fill&auto-fill how to do things right.
OTOH adding a big fat font-lock-warning-face where the convention is not
followed (like I do) would probably result in a massive popular revolt.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-13 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-13 18:50 ChangeLog fontifications Bruno Haible
2004-05-13 19:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 19:43 ` Bruno Haible
2004-05-13 20:38 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 21:12 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-13 21:15 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 20:13 ` Alan Shutko
2004-05-13 20:42 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 21:37 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-13 21:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-13 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-05-14 3:00 ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-14 4:24 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-14 13:56 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-14 6:24 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-14 6:36 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-14 15:31 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-14 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-16 15:14 ` Bruno Haible
2004-05-16 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-16 20:52 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-17 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-18 5:02 ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-19 1:32 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-19 13:08 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-19 13:22 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-19 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-19 13:45 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-11 17:15 Sam Steingold
2004-05-11 18:03 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-11 22:54 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-11 23:02 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 8:33 ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-05-12 10:10 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-12 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-13 17:22 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-14 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-12 0:08 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-12 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-12 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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