Subject: bug#11986: closed (Re: bug#11986: 24.1; cc-mode not font lock objc methods with leading _)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:24:01 +0000

Your bug report

#11986: 24.1; cc-mode not font lock objc methods with leading _

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#11986: 24.1; cc-mode not font lock objc methods with leading _
From: Leo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:16:54 +0800
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Installed in emacs-24.

Subject: 24.1; cc-mode not font lock objc methods with leading _
From: Leo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:25:01 +0800
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Put the following objc method declaration¹ in an objc-mode buffer:

    - (DDMathStringToken *)_parseNumberWithError:(NSError **)error;

You can see _parseNumberWithError not highlighted in
font-lock-function-name-face. This may be due to c-symbol-start not
containing _.

Leo

Footnotes: 
¹  Taken from https://github.com/davedelong/DDMathParser