From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best way to detect font-lock mode is on?
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:50:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzkrfc37z.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8762u6v7sd.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au
> Yes, that is how I plan to do it if font-lock is not enabled. I'm
> currently experimenting with syntax-ppss and parse-partial-sexp to see
> if the cached version can be used reliably or if the uncaching variant
> is required and if this has too high a penalty. I have found that with
> syntax-ppss, I do get false positives fairly frequently if I don't first
> call syntax-pps-flush-cache, which would seem to defeat its benefits
> over parse-partial-sexp.
font-lock uses syntax-ppss, so if syntax-ppss is wrong, font-lock should
be wrong as well.
> As the buffer is being edited, potentially changing the syntax at
> random places, it is difficult to determine when the cache will need
> to be flushed (though I have a couple of ideas that may strike an
> acceptable balance).
syntax-ppss is supposed to automatically flush the (relevant part of)
the cache after any buffer modification. The only exceptions are when
the buffer is modified in a context where inhibit-modification-hooks is
set (e.g. font-lock-syntactic-keywords).
>>> As you can see, I'm using font-lock-defaults to test whether font-lock
>>> is enabled. Is this the best way to go or is there a more
>>> reliable/better test to use?
>> Any reason not to use `font-lock-mode'?
> Only that some people don't like to use font-lock. I wanted the mode's
> functionality to be independent of font-lock and not force people to use
> it.
No, I mean to use the variable `font-lock-mode' rather than
`font-lock-defaults'.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-05 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-03 2:51 Best way to detect font-lock mode is on? Tim X
2011-01-03 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-03 6:08 ` Tim X
2011-01-05 5:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-01-05 7:55 ` Tim X
2011-01-10 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-05 14:52 ` Elena
2011-01-10 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-12 3:46 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-01-12 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-13 1:21 ` Tim X
2011-01-14 1:35 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2011-01-14 6:59 ` Tim X
2011-01-15 7:54 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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