Subject: Re: bug#43265: 28.0.50; Inconsistent fontifying in elisp-mode

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:58:22 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>>>> All special forms get it (`if' is a special form), but macros (like
>>>> `when') only gets it if we're in a funcall position:
>>> Not sure why that is.  Seems like an accident.
>> The special form bit, or the macro bit?  :-)
>
> The fact that the two are treated differently.

The handling of the macros is "more correct".  Should we just remove the
special-casing of special forms?

It apparently was introduced by:

commit 9fdc166ee0ca212f7d5bf1cd9e1177932b0cd9aa
Author:     Tassilo Horn <[email-masked]>
AuthorDate: Mon Mar 16 10:25:14 2015 +0100

Before this, special forms and macros were handled in the same way, but
the commit message doesn't really explain why this was changed.

(Tassilo added to the CCs.)

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