Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

[Stefan Monnier]

> beginning-of-defun unfortunately conflates (i) "beginning of a function" and
> (ii) "outermost level of parens", this arising because they coincide in
> the most important language (Lisp).  Having
> "beginning-of-defun-function" makes things even worse.

If you want a reliable solution for (ii), then use syntax-ppss (e.g. use the
syntax-ppss-toplevel-pos I proposed yesterday).

Beginning-of-defun *does not* conflate the two.  It has always been defined
as the meaning (i).  In just so happens that for performance reasons, people
have used it as a heuristic in syntax-begin-function to get an approximation
of (ii).  If you don't want that approximation, then don't set
syntax-begin-function.


        Stefan