Re: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines

[Stefan Monnier]

> A silly question maybe: Wouldn't

> +     (kill-local-variable 'parse-sexp-lookup-properties)

> cause problems for major modes using that?

Indeed.  AFAIK the only reason to set parse-sexp-lookup-properties to nil is
performance, so it shouldn't hurt to leave it set to t.

> I suppose it would be cleaner to require minor modes that want to turn
> on/off `parse-sexp-lookup-properties' in a buffer append/remove their
> name from/to that variable and kill it iff that list gets empty.

Maybe.  It seems overkill to me for this specific case, but it would make
sense to try and devise a general scheme for these kinds of problems,


        Stefan