Re: Font-lock decides function call is function declaration in C+ +

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Once a variable has been inserted into c-found-types, it will stay there
>> almost for ever; it will stay there until re-fontification is done from
>> BOB (I'm not sure whether or not that also means (point-min) on a
>> narrowed buffer).  This permanence seems to be the fundamental problem.
>> 
>> I think a solution might be to remove "foo" from c-found-types whenever
>> text is inserted/deleted in the vicinity of "foo\n bar ();" which
>> syntactically destroys its status as a type identifier.  I'll need to
>> think a lot more about this.

> For the Emacs 22 release, if no simple fix is forthcoming, could we
> simply get font-lock to avoid higlighting constructor functions?

Or to not try to auto-learn types,


        Stefan