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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 11:52:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmuhter68.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190704152451.GD5564@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:24:51 +0000")

Hi Alan,

> Thanks.  That's part of the problem.  Another part is that syntax
> fontification will have wrongly fontified the bits beyond the end of the
> invalid string with font-lock-string-face.

We've gone through that several times already.
We don't and can't know if it's wrong or not, because it depends on what
is the error: is there a missing closing " on the line, or should the
newline be preceded by \ ?

So no matter which behavior we choose to use, it will sometimes be
wrong, and the frequency of which is right and which is wrong completely
depends on things like the age of the captain.

You decided to expend a lot of efforts on implementing
a differently-wrong behavior than the default wrong behavior, breaking
long standing useful wrong behavior along the way.  That's your
prerogative.  But it's still wrong anyway because there can be no right
behavior here.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-04 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-02 13:16 bug#36474: Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode Alan Mackenzie
     [not found] ` <CALDnm51Hi10KMqYneWBamNL4sNdzHEz6_NasGk=oR_y-=1Y7nQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-07-02 15:27   ` Fwd: " João Távora
2019-07-02 16:04   ` bug#36474: " Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-02 17:22     ` João Távora
2019-07-02 18:28       ` bug#36474: " Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-02 21:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-03  9:28         ` João Távora
2019-07-03 10:58           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-03 13:07             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-03 13:32               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-03 14:25                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-03 15:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-03 20:54                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-04  2:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-04  1:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-03 13:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-03 13:35               ` João Távora
2019-07-03 13:31             ` João Távora
2019-07-03 18:25               ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-07-04  0:52                 ` João Távora
2019-07-04  6:17                   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-07-04 15:05               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-04 15:50                 ` João Távora
2019-07-04 16:58               ` [PATCH] " Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-04 18:45                 ` João Távora
2019-07-04 19:01                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-04 21:44                     ` João Távora
2019-07-08 10:05                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-08 12:10                         ` João Távora
2019-07-08 15:49                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 16:33                           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 17:24                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-08 17:32                               ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 16:45                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-08 17:29                             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 18:05                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-08 20:59                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-09  6:41                                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-07-09  9:06                                     ` João Távora
2019-07-09  9:23                                       ` João Távora
2019-07-09  9:52                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-09 10:54                                           ` João Távora
2019-07-09 11:18                                             ` João Távora
2019-07-09 15:18                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-09 15:40                                               ` contextual refontification (was: [PATCH] Re: Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode) Stefan Monnier
2019-07-10  9:32                                                 ` João Távora
2019-07-09 15:43                                               ` [PATCH] Re: Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode João Távora
2019-07-09 15:31                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-09 16:14                                               ` João Távora
2019-07-09 12:33                                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-07-09 14:28                                         ` João Távora
2019-07-09 16:05                                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-07-09 16:32                                             ` João Távora
2019-07-09 17:09                                               ` João Távora
2019-07-09 13:45                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-09 16:00                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-09 17:11                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-09 18:26                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-09 18:47                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-09 18:53                                         ` João Távora
2019-07-10 10:32                                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-10 10:40                                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 12:24                                               ` João Távora
2019-07-10 14:14                                                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-07-10 16:07                                                   ` João Távora
2019-07-11 15:14                                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-11 15:43                                                   ` João Távora
2019-07-11 15:51                                                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-11 16:13                                                       ` João Távora
2019-07-12 15:58                                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-12 18:47                                                           ` João Távora
2019-07-13  0:08                                                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 12:10                                             ` João Távora
2019-07-10 14:03                                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-10 16:05                                                 ` João Távora
2019-07-10 17:56                                                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-11  0:11                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2019-07-03 16:56             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-03 16:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-04 15:24               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-04 15:52                 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-07-04 16:42                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-04 20:16                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-04 21:27                     ` João Távora
2019-07-02 17:22     ` bug#36474: " João Távora
     [not found] ` <handler.36474.B.156207340818492.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-07-08  9:36   ` bug#36474: Acknowledgement (Algorithm in electric-pair--unbalanced-strings-p unsuitable for CC Mode) Alan Mackenzie

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