On 2016-12-08 15:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> As I said above, I think syntax-ppss should be retired and replaced by a
> function which does parse-partial-sexp starting at 1 rather than
> (point-min).

Doesn't the following do that?

  (save-restriction (widen) (syntax-ppss))

(Or does this break the cache in some way?)