Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[martin rudalics]

>> What exactly are the reasons that we need to scan from BOB?  With the
>> exception of data type declarations, what else requires to go back
>> farther that the beginning of the defun in which we start fontifying?
>
> It all depends on the language.
>
> E.g. in ELisp, what looks like a defun might actually be in the middle
> of a string and there's no reliable way to know if something's in
> a string other than to parse from BOB.

Unless `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' is non-nil.

martin