Re: Fontifying latex.ltx

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Whenever I visit latex.ltx, I encounter two rather annoying problems
>> with the resulting fontification via font-lock-mode:
>
>> 1. In the definition \def\verb{...,
>
> Indeed, the \verbC...C fontification gets triggered incorrectly there.
> Hmm...kind of a pain to try and detect such corner cases.
> In the mean time you can circumvent the problem with %{

Except for the pain of modifying code that isn't mine and that will
change back on the next software update, I could.

> I've just fixed the code in Emacs's trunk so we only highlight \verb+..+
> if it spans a single line.

Great. Since I do track the trunk, I'll soon have it.

> [...] whereas "odd" LaTeX structures
> are used even by normal LaTeX users (tho \def\verb arguably is not).

Yeah, it doesn't happen to me very often in my everyday LaTeX usage,
and when it does, I can usually work around it using a well placed
comment. I am used to that. But still, it might be nice perhaps to have
a pair of special comments I could put in LaTeX code, that would have
the side effect of turning off fontification in between.

> [...] (see the value of font-lock-defaults when in latex-mode), which
> is why your change had no effect.  Instead, you'll want to replace
> ((?$ . "\"")) with nil.

That did it. Thanks!

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