Re: [Patch] hard-widen-limits [was Re: Syntax tables for multiple modes [was: bug#22983: syntax-ppss returns wrong result.]]

[Stefan Monnier]

> Ok. So we agree that there is work involved of tracking an extra
> marker. Whenever buffer is modified by low level code, it must track new ZH
> marker and respect the relationship between ZH and ZV. There are 544 
> occurrences
> of ZV in emacs source. In order to add this extra marker one would need to go
> through all of those cases and enforce the semantics of ZH.

I wouldn't want to touch Z* and BEG*, indeed.
I'm just suggesting to keep the limits as markers rather than
as integers.  It's a trivial change.


        Stefan