From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fight: font-lock.el 1.289 vs. cc-defs.el
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:13:01 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1060131141101.402A-100000@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1F3e2O-0004Ke-TH@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> I'm asking that this change to font-lock.el be reconsidered, though I
> admit I don't know the problem it fixes.
>
>It detects a kind of problem that was hard to debug, when it occurred.
>I decided we needed to make such problems show themselves. I don't
>remember the details, but there was probably another change around the
>same time which fixed the specific problem.
>
> CC Mode calls (font-lock-compile-keywords "\\<\\>") at initialisation, to
> test for a bug in middle aged XEmacsen which splatted font-lock-keywords.
> The new check in V1.289 causes CC Mode to bail out with an error.
>
>I suggest you test that condition only on XEmacs.
Will do!
As a matter of interest, to anybody who's interested, (featurep 'xemacs)
is a good way of distinguishing the two Emacsen.
--
Alan.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-29 17:28 Fight: font-lock.el 1.289 vs. cc-defs.el Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-30 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-30 14:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-30 18:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-31 14:13 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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