Re: font-lock-syntactic-keywords obsolet?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:06:25PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > With a syntax-propertize-function instead of the current
> > before/after-change-functions, I simply can't picture what would happen.

> I'll help you.

> > The syntax-table properties would get removed from B, C, and D at some
> > indeterminate time.

> Indeed (tho I could tell you exactly when, but the abstraction provided
> by syntax-* doesn't depend on that).
> But right when you do the buffer modification, the text after the change
> is immediately marked as "out-of-date".

What about the text _before_ the change, should that become out of date
(as it does in CC Mode)?

> > You'd then have a race condition as to whether D
> > would match or mismatch some indeterminate character before A.

> No: as soon as you need to look at the `syntax-table' property, the
> parts marked as "out of date" will have their outdated properties
> removed+reapplied, so you'll be sure to get uptodate properties at that
> time.

This sounds like black magic.

>         Stefan

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).