Re: Fight: font-lock.el 1.289 vs. cc-defs.el

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>    I'm asking that this change to font-lock.el be reconsidered, though I
>    admit I don't know the problem it fixes.
>
>It detects a kind of problem that was hard to debug, when it occurred.
>I decided we needed to make such problems show themselves.  I don't
>remember the details, but there was probably another change around the
>same time which fixed the specific problem.
>
>    CC Mode calls (font-lock-compile-keywords "\\<\\>") at initialisation, to
>    test for a bug in middle aged XEmacsen which splatted font-lock-keywords.
>    The new check in V1.289 causes CC Mode to bail out with an error.
>
>I suggest you test that condition only on XEmacs.

Will do!

As a matter of interest, to anybody who's interested, (featurep 'xemacs)
is a good way of distinguishing the two Emacsen.

-- 
Alan.