GNU bug report logs - #9919
24.0.91; font-lock broken in dired

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 6662

Found in versions 24.0.50, 24.0.91

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-07/msg01057.html

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Message #39 received at 9919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 9919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9919: 24.0.91; font-lock broken in dired
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:26:11 -0500

> OK, so Emacs broke it in 23 instead of 24. ;-)  That does not happen
> in Emacs 20-22 AFAICT.  What's the gotcha for Emacs 20-22?  What does
> a user need to do in Emacs 20-22 to show that this code won't DTRT?

AFAIK the example will break your code in any version of Emacs
that supports font-lock.

>> Nothing very deep.  The moment when font-lock-mode gets enabled
>> has changed.  I'm not convinced the new time is really much 
>> better, but I'm not convinced the old time was better either.
> Was that change made in Emacs 23 or 24?

Emacs-24.
The change is to global-font-lock-mode, BTW.


        Stefan
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