Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans - request for a slight delay.

[Chong Yidong]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

>> Secondly, if memory serves, c-beginning-of-defun is not only used
>> interactively, but also for font-lock.  Is this correct?
>
> I think so.  I'll have a closer look later.
>
>> If so, is there a possibility that quitting from the paren-parsing
>> loop in this way will screw up font-lock?
>
> Yes, under the following conditions:
> (i) only when there is a K&R region (hence, only in C Mode, not C++,
>   ObjC, ....);
> (ii) only when there are more than N (currently 20) paren/bracket pairs
>   in the region (ignoring comments/strings/preprocessor lines). 

Let's delay this till after the 22.2 release.

I'll be rolling the pretest shortly.