Re: is the shy groups problem solved in 21.4.17? Other bugs?
* Uwe Brauer (2005-02-07) writes:
I would like to clarify the issues on the shy-groups bug (finally it
was because of this bug, that 21.4.16 got withdrawn).
- it seems that I (using 21.4.16 _no Mule_) did not suffer this
bug in any noticeable way: gnus auctex x-symbol behaved in
the same way as they did in 21.4.15. So I asked for a way
to test the bug. Ralf Angeli proposed the following
example
[...]
Ralf> \documentclass{article}
Ralf> \begin{document}
Ralf> \begin{verbatim}
Ralf> echo $LANG
Ralf> \end{verbatim}
Ralf> \end{document}
This is _not_ related to the shy group group bug. In the message you
quoted it from, I mentioned this as an example related to
fontification where the XEmacs/AUCTeX combination falls short compared
to the Emacs/AUCTeX combination. Further down in that message I
explained that while trying to prepare this example XEmacs crashed.
And at the end of the message I described the steps necessary to
reproduce the crash. The fontification problem and the crash or two
separate issues.
The fortification indeed did not work correctly in 21.4.16,
so I took this as a test of the shy groups bug; I tested
this on Friday night on pre 21.4.17 and found the same
behaviour and reported it as if the BUG is still
there. However it seems *this conclusion is not correct*,
for Fabrice reported the same font lock behaviour in the
21.5 series.
It turned out that fontification of verbatim environments in
XEmacs/AUCTeX is not working correctly partly because of differences
in the interfaces of Emacs' and XEmacs' font-lock.el and partly
because of missing functionality in XEmacs' font-lock.el. The code in
AUCTeX currently only works with Emacs but I am trying to make it
compatible with XEmacs. But I am not sure if I will succeed because
of the missing functionality in XEmacs. As soon as I know more and
feel that it is appropriate I will send a feature request.
--
Ralf