Re: [Emacs-diffs] widen-limits c331b66: Implement buffer-widen-limits functionality

[Vitalie Spinu]

>> On Wed, Mar 23 2016 14:02, Andreas Röhler wrote:

> may you point me to spot/bug where widen goes wrong?

Widen doesn't go wrong in itself. It what you do when you widen. In multi-modes
which use narrowing to create a micro-universe for inner modes, inner mode might
widen then compute some stuff on code from other language regions. This leads to
errors of all kind.

For example when multi-mode advices font-lock-default-fontify-region it cannot
control what individual functions in font-lock-keywords are doing. In case of
syntax-propertize-function it's a complete black box. The function can decide to
do whatever there.

Luckily if major-modes doesn't use widen or parse-partial-sexp directly it all
seem to work quite well with proper advice of relevant functions.

  Vitalie