Re: Changes in font locking
On Wed, Mar 14 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Quite obviously the bugs themselves and the reporters' demeanor
have a
huge amount to do with it, write access or not very little, and very
few reporters receive cross words, and even fewer are ignored.
From your reply to Katsumi Yamaoka who found added a workaround [2] in
`dgnushack.el' [1] to make mail splitting work again in Gnus with
XEmacs 21.5:
,----[ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56508 ]
| "Gnus doesn't work, so it's a syntax table bug in XEmacs" is not
| worth investigating for me, [...]
`----
From your reply to Steve Youngs who pointed out that XEmacs 21.4 and
XEmacs 21.5 behave differently wrt syntax tables:
,----[ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56509 ]
| No sane person expects anything related to Gnus to be deterministic.
`----
And these are only quotes from the one of the (three years old) thread
related to `with-syntax-table'. Not exactly encouraging in my book.
Bye, Reiner.
[1]
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;; Work around for an incompatibility (XEmacs 21.4 vs. 21.5), see the
;; following threads:
;;
;; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56414
;; Subject: attachment problems found but not fixed
;;
;; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56459
;; Subject: Splitting mail -- XEmacs 21.4 vs 21.5
;;
;; http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/20519
;; Subject: XEmacs 21.5 and Gnus fancy splitting.
(when (and (featurep 'xemacs)
(let ((table (copy-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table)))
(modify-syntax-entry ?= " " table)
(with-temp-buffer
(with-syntax-table table
(insert "foo=bar")
(goto-char (point-min))
(forward-sexp 1)
(eolp)))))
;; The original `with-syntax-table' uses `copy-syntax-table' which
;; doesn't seem to copy modified syntax entries in XEmacs 21.5.
(defmacro with-syntax-table (syntab &rest body)
"Evaluate BODY with the SYNTAB as the current syntax table."
`(let ((stab (syntax-table)))
(unwind-protect
(progn
;;(set-syntax-table (copy-syntax-table ,syntab))
(set-syntax-table ,syntab)
,＠body)
(set-syntax-table stab)))))
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[2] Now I think would have been better _not_ to add a workaround in
dgnushack.el. Maybe the problem would have received more
attention if more XEmacs users would have complained.
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