Jin> Is anyone else noticing that JDE mode has started behaving Jin> strangely? Andy Piper apparently lives in JDE; surely he would have noticed. I know he's submitted a few patches recently. Are you up-to-date on JDE and other packages (possibly requires the pre-releases)? Your environment may be different from his; who knows? Please give a full bug report: M-x report-emacs-bug; Emacs behavior is generated by an incredibly incestuous network of related packages. Without information on versions of all of them, and other information about your build, it's hard to localize what's going on. Jin> First there was the infinite lazy-lock fontifying hang This may have to do with changes to the matching code, which has been broken by design for ages. It's quite possible that JDE depends on the breakage. Please submit a full bug report with test data if possible. (And no, I do not do java so I don't have any around at the moment; minimal cases are also appreciated, especially if you can come up with "this works for me, this does not" pairs involving minimal changes to the test data.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

Andy> This wouldn't surprise me. JDE jumps through some weird Andy> hoops to get jde as a derived mode. Its supposed to inherit Andy> syntax table entries (keymap also) but some weirdness may be Andy> going on. Keymaps inherit, but syntax tables do not inherit the way GNU does (maybe that was Jin Choi's patch, though?) I looked at the syntax inheritance issue, but got side-tracked. It's not obvious how to handle it. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

Andy> So we probably need to copy then - this seems easy enough, Andy> but why doesn't derived.el do this already? Our derived.el is ancient. Since we handle practically everything that modes care about (keymaps, syntax tables, font-lock) differently from GNU, synching is a bear. Possibly Daiki Ueno's patch (see URL) fixes, which may be OK for 21.4 despite my concerns in general (see my QUERY following up). http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200304/msg00017.html I'm not sure if this works at all for 21.4, I only looked at 21.5. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.