Re: syntax-propertize-function vs indentation lexer

[Dmitry Gutov]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> However, syntax-propertize-function is only called from font-lock. So it
> only runs on the visible part of the buffer, and only when font-lock is
> enabled. So if neither of those conditions is present, the lexer fails
> on character constants. In particular, I have a test suite that runs in
> batch mode, when global-font-lock-mode is off.
>
> To fix this, I could call syntax-propertize-function (or
> ada-syntax-propertize directly) from ada-mode to initialize the buffer,
> and again from before- or after-change-functions to catch edits.
>
> Is there a better way?

You can call `syntax-propertize', like `js-mode' does in its major mode
function.

It's usually called by `syntax-ppss', which is used in indentaion code
in most of the packages.