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24.3.50; scroll-conservatively & c-mode regression

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Message #94 received at 16526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 16526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16526: 24.3.50; scroll-conservatively & c-mode regression
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:16:06 -0500

>> Another option is to put a syntax-table property on those rare
>> open-paren-in-column-0-inside-comment-or-string, so that
>> open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start still works properly.
> Wouldn't we then have to parse the entire buffer for strings and
> comments in order to detect these parens?  More or less this would
> duplicate the effort of `syntax-ppss'.

IIUC CC-mode does do such scanning to place syntax-table properties on
various elements (it should do it from syntax-propertize-function, but
for various reasons it does it at various other places instead, in
piecemeal fashion).  So it would just be adding one more element to
find and mark.


        Stefan

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