GNU bug report logs - #36492
c-mode fails with errors during fontification

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Packages: cc-mode, emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 20:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in versions 27.0.50, 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 36492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: 36492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#36492: c-mode fails with errors during fontification
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 16:47:08 +0300

On 08.07.2019 15:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> I wonder if ignore-errors around font-lock-ensure in mm-display-inline-fontify
>> is still necessary to ensure no more bugs in other modes disrupt Gnus
>> by erroneous code in attachments?  Or maybe raising such errors will help
>> to find fontification bugs sooner?
> My feeling is that it's better to let the errors happen, so that we can
> debug them.  But on the other hand, it's not me that gets inconvenienced
> by such an error (I don't use gnus).

I'd like to second that.

And with similar errors taken care of, it might become feasible to use 
e.g. c-mode with mmm-mode.
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