Re: font-lock-syntactic-keywords obsolet?

[Stefan Monnier]

> The question is if `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' really should be
> declared obsolete.
> From docu of `syntax-propertize-function':
> "The specified function may call `syntax-ppss' on any position
> before END, but it should not call `syntax-ppss-flush-cache',
> which means that it should not call `syntax-ppss' on some
> position and later modify the buffer on some earlier position."
> So "on any position" but not "on some position"?
> IMHO that's not ready.

That presumes that font-lock-syntactic-keywords does not suffer from
tricky interactions with syntax-ppss.  Of course, that's not the case,
instead these are simply undocumented.


        Stefan