Help with GNU Emacs syntax.el and XEmacs buffer-syntactic-context et al?

Hi, Been looking again at the task of getting the mode for go work with XEmacs and need some help. It uses functions from syntax.el[1] which in GNU Emacs contains "helper functions to find syntactic context". Oddly(!?) this file contains at the bottom commented out XEmacs(!) compatibility functions for "buffer-syntactic-contex" and "buffer-syntactic-context-dept" which are found in font-lock.c. This could indicate that we have overlapping functionality which in its turn might be better handled by just using our APIs instead!? I ask myself what is the proper thing to do here: 1. Ignore that we have these overlap and just get the functions in syntax.el into XEmacs as is. 2. Flip the coin and produce compatibility functions for the functions in syntax.el. 2. Just change the mode that triggered this, go-mode, to use the functions we have in XEmacs.[2] Yours Footnotes: [1] This is a problem of its own since we have syntax.el already but with different functions. I have posted about it earlier but with no response. (Adding this footnote in the hope of getting some attention to that problem! ;-) [2] The actual offending function used by go-mode is this: (syntax-ppss (&optional pos) "Parse-Partial-Sexp State at POS, defaulting to point. The returned value is the same as `parse-partial-sexp' except that the 2nd and 6th values of the returned state cannot be relied upon. Point is at POS when this function returns." What would be the XEmacs way to implement that? Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta