Re: Wrong fontification in C source

[Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Hello, Tino.
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:31:00AM +0900, Tino Calancha wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan,
>
>> I've just noticed that after commit:
>> 578d9aaf82b386c1a0316dde491d297e18e10636
>> in Emacs C source code,
>> 'DEFUN' gets face 'default' instead of 'font-lock-function-name-face'.
>
> OK.  This is not necessarily a bug; "DEFUN" is not the name of the
> function being defined, therefore it is not obvious why it should get
> font-lock-function-name-face.  If anything should get that face, it is
> the identifier beginning with "F...".
That's right.

> If, with SW older than 578d9a..., you type instead "DFUN", or any other
> string, this also gets fontified with font-lock-function-name-face
> (possibly at first needing M-o M-o).  So it is not "DEFUN" as such which
> is being fontified, it is rather the identifier in that position.
>
> So, the sensible thing to do is either (i) enhance the fontification
> part of CC Mode to handle DEFUN (and DEFVAR, ....) properly; or (ii)
> decide that the situation is "not a bug".  Given how much work it would
> take to parse DEFUN and friends, and the fact that they're not used
> outside of Emacs development, I'm inclined to go for alternative (ii).
I agree.  I just got used to see DEFUN with a nice blue color, but your
argument convinced me.

Regards,
Tino