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[PATCH] Face-ify all comment delimiters in 'lua-ts-mode'

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: john muhl <jm <at> pub.pink>
Subject: bug#79258: closed (Re: bug#79258: [PATCH] Face-ify all comment
 delimiters in 'lua-ts-mode')
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:33:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#79258: [PATCH] Face-ify all comment delimiters in 'lua-ts-mode'

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 79258 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: john muhl <jm <at> pub.pink>
Cc: 79258-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79258: [PATCH] Face-ify all comment delimiters in
 'lua-ts-mode'
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:32:36 +0300

> From: john muhl <jm <at> pub.pink>
> Cc: 79258 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:32:48 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: john muhl <jm <at> pub.pink>
> >> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:43:56 -0500
> >> 
> >> Add font-lock-comment-delimiter face to all the initial dashes in single
> >> line comments. Some popular documentation styles recommend triple dashes
> >> and it looks better to have all the dashes in the same face.
> >
> > Thanks, but shouldn't the code which moves point be in save-excursion
> > in this case?  If not, why not?
> 
> I thought the font-lock machinery took care of it. If I followed
> the code correctly then we eventually end up in
> font-lock-default-fontify-syntactically which uses save-excursion.
> 
> Checking the position of point at the beginning of
> lua-ts--comment-font-lock shows that it has already been moved (to
> the end of the line/comment) before there is any chance to call
> save-excursion from here so the position it would restore isn’t
> where the user has the point at anyway.

Thanks, now installed on the master branch, and closing the bug.

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From: john muhl <jm <at> pub.pink>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Face-ify all comment delimiters in 'lua-ts-mode'
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:43:56 -0500

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Tags: patch

Add font-lock-comment-delimiter face to all the initial dashes in single
line comments. Some popular documentation styles recommend triple dashes
and it looks better to have all the dashes in the same face.

[0001-Face-ify-all-comment-delimiters-in-lua-ts-mode.patch (text/patch, attachment)]

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