From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17730: 24.4.50; (elisp) `Syntactic Font Lock': undescribed OTHER-VARS Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:20:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87woch9bk0.fsf@gnus.org> References: <7823b16e-d906-47b3-a05f-c094aa795555@default> <87fuu4p2pj.fsf@gnus.org> <87inyyae8z.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="27758"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 17730@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 03 17:21:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIcq-00075x-2H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54548 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIco-0005a0-VK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIcj-0005Zk-5e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIci-0001D2-1X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIch-0001Cw-Ts for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIcf-0007Xu-OU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:21:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17730 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 17730-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17730.157279802428925 (code B ref 17730); Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17730) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Nov 2019 16:20:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34891 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIc4-0007WQ-4o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:45372) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIc1-0007WE-QY for 17730@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:20:22 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iRIbv-0007KE-Pc; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:20:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87inyyae8z.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 01 May 2016 01:06:04 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170883 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> Anybody want to take a guess at what this is supposed to mean? > > Looks like this refers to this thing described in the doc of > `font-lock-defaults': > > "Further item elements are alists of the form (VARIABLE . VALUE) and are > in no particular order. Each VARIABLE is made buffer-local before set > to VALUE." > > Also see the following sentences. > > Maybe the docstring of `font-lock-defaults' has been changed, and a > further version used the name "OTHER-VARS". Yup; that makes sense. I've now adjusted the manual and added a real-life example to help make it obvious what we're talking about. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no