GNU bug report logs - #25030
elisp: highlighting of unexpected indentation should use separate face from highlight of error functions

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25030: 25.1;
 Unexpected indentation and syntax-highlighting in `emacs-lisp-mode'
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:53:40 -0400

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Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This may not be a bug, but it is certainly a mis-feature.
>
> Warning should be reserved for syntax which may have unintended or
> surprising semantics. Indentation that does not follow a convention is
> not wrong either systacically or semantically.

I'm not convinced by this.  Code with unconventional indendation has
surprising syntax to a human reader (or from another perspective, when
I'm writing code which indents strangely, that clues me in that I've
written some unintended syntax), therefore, it seems a warning is
exactly appropriate.

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