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Re: [Patch] hard-widen-limits [was Re: Syntax tables for multiple modes


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [Patch] hard-widen-limits [was Re: Syntax tables for multiple modes [was: bug#22983: syntax-ppss returns wrong result.]]
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:57:27 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> So the consumer will need to set this variable and always follow it by widen.
> Hm. This also implies that each consumer will need to take care of current
> narrowing and re-narrow to new limits. This doesn't sound right.
> I am also not sure what the behavior of save-restriction should be. Should
> save-restriction unwind hard limits as well?

IIRC past discussions on this issue, one option was to merge your
set-widen-limits into narrow-to-region by adding an optional argument
`hard'.  And yes, I think save-restriction should unwind hard limits.


        Stefan



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