Re: c-font-lock-extra-types and friends

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Eli.

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 08:40:38 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Ping!

Sorry, I got bogged down with something else, the last few days.

> Alan, with the pretest of Emacs 29 very near, I'd like to resolve
> this issue.  TIA.

OK, I'll backport it to Emacs 29.

[ .... ]

> > Thanks.  However, I have a couple of questions about that commit:

> >  . why did you add a new function c-list-of-strings, when we already
> >    had c-string-list-p there?
> >  . any reason not to backport this to the emacs-29 branch?

I'd forgotten about c-string-list.  How did you pick up the duplication,
just as a matter of interest?  I'll get rid of c-list-of-strings.

> > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:51:28 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org

> > > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:27 +0200
> > > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org

> > >  . why did you add a new function c-list-of-strings, when we already
> > >    had c-string-list-p there?
> > >  . any reason not to backport this to the emacs-29 branch?

> > Also, this change leads to

> >     ELC      ../lisp/loaddefs.elc
> >   Reloading stale loaddefs.el
> >   Loading d:/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp/loaddefs.el (source)...
> >   Loading d:/gnu/git/emacs/trunk/lisp/theme-loaddefs.el (source)...

> >   In end of data:
> >   loaddefs.el:3784:55: Warning: the function `c-list-of-strings' is not known to be defined.

I'm working on this now.  Hopefully everything will be resolved today.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).