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

[Marshall, Simon]

> >> 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,

Yes, unfortunately, I think that if you try to learn types on-the-fly then
you will always be vulnerable to this sort of problem.  The issue is that
cc-mode needs to know as soon as a change invalidates it as a candidate type
(ie, deletion of some/all of the text "foo" or interruption of the
whitespace between "foo" and its candidate identifier "bar").  I can think
of a few ways you could attempt to do it, but they are a bit intensive and
far from simple.

Perhaps cc-mode should only try to learn types when fontifying the whole
buffer?

Simon.


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