GNU bug report logs - #63840
29.0.91; c-ts-mode fails to fontify common C extension

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 12:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 29.0.91

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 63840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, theo <at> thornhill.no
Subject: bug#63840: 29.0.91; c-ts-mode fails to fontify common C extension
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:31:38 +0300

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 22:05:33 -0700
> Cc: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>,
>  Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>,
>  63840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Ping!  Any progress with this?
> 
> The best option is to ask tree-sitter-c to recognize $. I see a PR for it but the author closed it shortly after posting, not sure what was going on[1].

Any hope of re-opening it, or at least asking why it was closed
without fixing?

> Fixing it ourselves involves checking every identifier during fontification. Is that something we want to do?

How would that work?  Can you describe how could this be implemented?
It is hard to decide whether it's something we want to do without
knowing the implications.
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