[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Changes in font locking

Ralf Angeli angeli at caeruleus.net
Tue Mar 13 02:59:43 EDT 2007


* Stephen J. Turnbull (2007-03-13) writes:

> David Kastrup quotes Artemio Gonzalez:
>
>  > > That's due to a bug in XEmacs 21.5 related to the function
>  > > `with-syntax-table' I reported over two years ago to the XEmacs
>
> The syntax table stuff is unlikely to get fixed by XEmacs core
> developers until Ben returns, because it hooks into various processes
> at a rather low level.  If somebody wants to invest in studying that
> stuff and produce a patch, I'd be happy to review.

If Ben is the only one understanding the code, it doesn't make much
sense to send a patch, because he will be the only one able to judge
if the patch is correct.  Other than that I already told you a
potential fix and there is a reimplementation of `with-syntax-table'
in Gnus using the same fix.

-- 
Ralf



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