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bug#43298: 27.1; Do font locking for Python 3, not 2
From: |
Kévin Le Gouguec |
Subject: |
bug#43298: 27.1; Do font locking for Python 3, not 2 |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:23:18 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
This is one of my long-standing pet peeves, thanks for filing an issue
about it. FWIW here is how I thought I'd go about fixing this Whenever
I'd Find The Time™ (… needless to say, if anyone wants to beat me to it,
there'll be no hard feelings):
1. Add fontification tests for the current fontification.
(Because I expected the overall patch to be quite big, and I figured
it'd be easier to get it merged if it came with a bunch of
non-regression tests.)
2. Create 3 sets of font-lock settings in python.el: -2, -3, and
-undecided (= whatever the current settings do).
3. Add a variable to control which settings to use (settable through
Customize or through file/directory-local variables).
4. Add heuristics to pick the "right" style by default (e.g. look for a
shebang).
On the one hand, I agree that Emacs should be py3k-compliant by now
out-of-the-box. On the other hand, I'd bet there are a lot of poor
souls out there who will be stuck maintaining Python 2 code for a few
more years. Messing with font-lock without giving them an escape hatch
sounds like some form of double-jeopardy…