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24.3.50; (elisp) `Search-based Fontification': unspecified MATCHER cases

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Message #20 received at 15120 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 15120 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15120: 24.3.50;
 (elisp) `Search-based Fontification': unspecified MATCHER cases
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:03:06 -0800

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> You are just not reading.
>
> What it says, at the place where you apparently think that it
> introduces MATCHER for the entire page, is this:
>
>   "In this kind of element, MATCHER is..."
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> IN THIS KIND OF ELEMENT!  Why on Earth does it say that?
>
> It is specifying what MATCHER means in the form `(MATCHER . SUBEXP)',
> where SUBEXP must be...  And by taking the pains to specify
> explicitly that this applies to this kind of element, the
> suggestion is that it does NOT necessarily apply to the other
> kinds of element shown on the page.  Otherwise, why say that?

And in the next paragraphs it doesn't define MATCHER, because, well,
it's the same.

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