GNU bug report logs - #13915
24.3.50; `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' - really obsolete?

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 13915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13915: 24.3.50; `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' - really obsolete?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:43:43 -0400

> No one suggested that you should remove support for it before marking it
> obsolete!  You are right to suppose that I would never have suggested such a
> thing.  So why bring it up as a straw man?

Because the "uses" you seem to see in font-lock.el are just the code
that *implements* font-lock-syntactic-keywords.  None of it *uses* it.
So removing those "uses" would remove support for it.


        Stefan
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