GNU bug report logs - #1297
font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:05:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 1297-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1297-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search doc and usage
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:56:31 -0500

> font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search docstring should make it more clear
> that font-lock-defaults erases it.

Okay, I changed it to make it hopefully clearer.

> There is one victim in the tree.  `lisp-mode' does:
>
>   (make-local-variable 'font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search)
>   (setq font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search t)
>
> but the value of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search in a lisp-mode
> buffer is nil, that's because font-lock-defaults does a
> kill-local-variable on it...

Great catch.  No one has complained about this, so clearly it's OK for
font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search to be nil.  I removed the bogus
8-year-old setting of font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search.
This bug report was last modified 16 years and 203 days ago.

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