From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Question about font-lock-compile-keywords
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:36:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMAEEMCLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GNAB9-00034n-T7@fencepost.gnu.org>
font-lock-compile-keywords added an optional arg for Emacs
22. It looks, from a quick glance, as if a non-nil value
for that arg gives behavior similar to what the function
did in Emacs 21 and 20.
Wouldn't it be better for the optional arg to be
complemented, so that a value of nil gave (more or less)
the pre-22 behavior? Wouldn't that make things easier for
third-party libraries that call font-lock-compile-keywords
(with no second arg)?
That seems like a good idea in principle, but which behavior do real
third-party libraries which use font-lock-compile-keywords actually
want? (Are there really any?)
I don't have any concrete info to help, here. I just thought it seemed a bit
backwards. More typically, optional args are added in such a way that the
nil value is more or less compatible with the previous version, without the
new arg (when feasible).
FWIW, this came up as I was trying to use, in Emacs 20, some Emacs 22 code
that called font-lock-remove-keywords. I first tried simply adding a
definition of that function, but things soon got more complex. It was in
exploring this that I discovered the new, backward-seeming arg to
font-lock-compile-keywords.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-12 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-12 0:04 Question about font-lock-compile-keywords Drew Adams
2006-09-12 15:28 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-12 15:36 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2006-09-13 15:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-13 15:36 ` Drew Adams
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