Subject: bug#17730: 24.4.50; (elisp) `Syntactic Font Lock': undescribed OTHER-VARS

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:20:15 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Anybody want to take a guess at what this is supposed to mean?
>
> Looks like this refers to this thing described in the doc of
> `font-lock-defaults':
>
> "Further item elements are alists of the form (VARIABLE . VALUE) and are
> in no particular order.  Each VARIABLE is made buffer-local before set
> to VALUE."
>
> Also see the following sentences.
>
> Maybe the docstring of `font-lock-defaults' has been changed, and a
> further version used the name "OTHER-VARS".

Yup; that makes sense.  I've now adjusted the manual and added a
real-life example to help make it obvious what we're talking about.

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