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Re: Feature request/RFC: proper highlighting of code embedded in comment
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: Feature request/RFC: proper highlighting of code embedded in comments |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:25:51 -0400 |
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On 2016-10-17 09:12, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> (font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("^ *>>> \\(.*\\)" (0
>> (indirect-font-lock-highlighter 1 'python-mode)))))
>
> IIUC you additionally want to handle the "... " lines.
Yup; this was just a POC :)
>> Stefan (and emacs-devel!), do you think I should add this to ELPA?
>
> Feel free.
Will do it soon!
>> Are there downsides I should be aware of?
>
> The usual:
> - running the major mode might run "side-effecting code" from the user's
> hook. I consider it a bug in the user's setup, but it does happen.
> - it fails to take into account local modifications of the font-lock rules.
This second point is interesting. I ran into this issue with company-coq. The
problem was that entering the coq major mode took a long time (maybe .2
seconds?), so fontifying small things on the fly was slow. I ended up copying
font-lock related variables. Something like
(defconst company-coq--font-lock-vars '(font-lock-keywords
font-lock-keywords-only
font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search
font-lock-syntax-table
font-lock-syntactic-face-function)
"Font-lock variables that influence fontification.")
(defun company-coq--fontify-buffer-with (&optional ref-buffer)
"Fontify current buffer according to settings in REF-BUFFER."
(cl-loop for var in company-coq--font-lock-vars
do (set (make-local-variable var)
(buffer-local-value var ref-buffer)))
(ignore-errors
;; Some modes, such as whitespace-mode, rely on buffer-local state to do
;; their fontification. Thus copying only font-lock variables is not
;; enough; one would need to copy these modes private variables as well.
;; See GH-124.
(font-lock-default-fontify-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)))
But this is a bit broken, because fontification rules can run essentially
anything. It would be nice to have a feature like "fontify as if this code was
at position 0 in this buffer". I don't know whether it would make sense.
Cheers,
Clément.
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