From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: 43298@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43298: 27.1; Do font locking for Python 3, not 2
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:23:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9gl1r7d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa5wo12ol0e.fsf@numerus.lingfil.uu.se>
This is one of my long-standing pet peeves, thanks for filing an issue
about it. FWIW here is how I thought I'd go about fixing this Whenever
I'd Find The Time™ (… needless to say, if anyone wants to beat me to it,
there'll be no hard feelings):
1. Add fontification tests for the current fontification.
(Because I expected the overall patch to be quite big, and I figured
it'd be easier to get it merged if it came with a bunch of
non-regression tests.)
2. Create 3 sets of font-lock settings in python.el: -2, -3, and
-undecided (= whatever the current settings do).
3. Add a variable to control which settings to use (settable through
Customize or through file/directory-local variables).
4. Add heuristics to pick the "right" style by default (e.g. look for a
shebang).
On the one hand, I agree that Emacs should be py3k-compliant by now
out-of-the-box. On the other hand, I'd bet there are a lot of poor
souls out there who will be stuck maintaining Python 2 code for a few
more years. Messing with font-lock without giving them an escape hatch
sounds like some form of double-jeopardy…
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-09 18:36 bug#43298: 27.1; Do font locking for Python 3, not 2 Per Starbäck
2020-09-10 17:23 ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2021-10-11 13:25 ` Stefan Kangas
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