GNU bug report logs - #4835
something about message-log-max? - see msg#95

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:55:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #40 received at 4835 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,
        <4835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#4835: 23.1; Improper `Invalid face reference' messages. Performance degraded.
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:37:44 -0400

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Why is it necessary to restrict the function to a symbol - why disallow lambda
> forms? IOW, why can't we use (functionp keywords) instead of (fboundp keywords)?

In principle, I don't see why matchers can't be lambda expressions.  The
main concern I have is that other parts of font lock might have subtle
assumptions about the matcher being a function name.  It seems easier to
make this implicit assumption an explicit one.
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