Re: [Adrian Robert] Status of cc-mode Objective-C patch?

[Adrian Robert]

On May 16, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 07:28:27PM +0700, Adrian Robert wrote:
>
> > I'm still wondering if its syntax highlighting portion (colorize
> > portions of the selector in method calls) could be considered for the
> > future, e.g. 23.2.
> >   ...
>
> Fontifying a use of a variable, as contrasted with its definition (for
> fairly inclusive values of "variable") has never been an Emacs  
> standard.
> However, quite a few people over the years have asked for this sort of
> thing in CC Mode.  Maybe the Right Thing would be to formulate exactly
> what "variable" uses could be usefully fontified, and introduce a new
> user option (?c-fontify-class-name-use-flag, or the like) to enable  
> this
> fontification.  I don't feel there would be all that many distince  
> cases
> to consider.

Ah, I see what you are saying here -- there's no fontifying of  
variable uses or function names in CC mode languages.  Even though,  
in lisp, property names are highlighted (e.g., (foo :bar 1)), in XML  
modes attribute names, in Makefile, shell script, Tcl, and Perl,  
variable uses, it might be best to keep this under tighter control in  
C-like languages due to their different nature.

Would using the existing decoration level scheme be inappropriate?