Re: Fast lock mode issue

"stephen" == stephen <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: stephen> Nelson Ferreira writes: stephen> First, let me warn that fast-lock is deprecated and stephen> unmaintained as far as I know. Ok. I can live with having my own patched copy. stephen> What is the context of this? This happens for me mostly when using Info and the info file is compressed. I believe the root cause of this is because the buffer is not associated with a file name. The issue here seems to be that on the decompressed bufefr buffer-file-truename is nil and while buffer-file-name still holds the .gz file name which can be used to save the font-lock info, but it was not. This is in the fast-lock-cache-name defun which returns the filename where the font lock info will be saved. This is _always_ called with a directory taken of fast-lock-cache-directories, which will be _where_ the cache will be saved. ,---- | `fast-lock-cache-directories' is a variable declared in Lisp. | -- loaded from "fast-lock" | | Documentation: | *Directories in which Font Lock cache files are saved and read. [...] `---- stephen> Why does fast-lock need a file name here? It tries to get the buffer-file-name in order to append a transformation of it to the directory received as arg and thus returning a unique filename for that buffer. stephen> It seems to me that fast-lock is doing something evil in stephen> depending on the buffer visiting a file; that should be stephen> checked and fixed, rather than applying a hack that seems stephen> likely to file up random directories with irrelevant trash. Well, it is fast-lock's design to use the full path of the file being visited to lookup and load the font lock info. So changing that is to fundamentally change the nature of fast-lock. Still, this hack _will not_ file up random directories because the .flc will only be saved on one of the directories in fast-lock-cache-directories. -- Nelson Ferreira _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches