From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-locking and open parens in column zero Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:52:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4503E44B.5020406@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157914420 1323 80.91.229.2 (10 Sep 2006 18:53:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 10 20:53:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMUR1-00077Q-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:53:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMUR0-0006Qv-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMUQG-0005pZ-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMUQG-0005p7-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMUQF-0005oe-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GMURL-0006RH-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GMUQE-0004iZ-DQ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:52:50 -0400 Original-To: martin rudalics In-reply-to: <4503E44B.5020406@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:09:15 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59632 Archived-At: +++ *** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment, font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause trouble with fontification and/or indentation. That is probably obsolete, from the days before C mode started using `c-beginning-of-syntax'. This feature is no longer needed in C mode, since `c-beginning-of-syntax' prevents the confusion it was meant to warn the user about. So I will update this NEWS entry. Thanks.