Re: C Mode: acceleration in brace deserts.

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Lennart Borgman
>
>> Just a question I forgot: Why are you not using syntax-ppss here
>> [keeping track of comments/strings in c-parse-state's supporting
>> functions]?  Are you not looking for the same thing (ie inside comment
>> or string).
>
> I think at the time I did it, it was just less work to write it from
> scratch.  syntax-ppss isn't a well encapsulated system, and it almost
> requires its users to read its source code to see exactly what it does.
> Also, c-parse-state (in effect) changes the syntax table in use by
> setting category properties.  At the time, I was considering actually
> changing the syntax table (for reasons I'm not entirely clear about any
> more).  Does syntax-ppss exist in XEmacs, and if so, since when?  Some of
> syntax-ppss's supporting infrastructure only came into existence after
> syntax-ppss itself.
>
>> If you did it that way then it would already be supported by MuMaMo.
>
> Ah.  That sounds like a good reason to change my new code to use
> syntax-ppss.  :-(  But not before the first pretest release next week.

Thanks. ;-)

Would it be enough to change c-state-literal-at? Perhaps you could
send me a new version of that so I could test it in that case. I could
just defadvice c-state-literal-at.