Re: Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12.02.2017 19:29, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> comment-cache and syntax-ppss are independent of each other

No, they are not. forward-comment and syntax-ppss are and will be used 
from the same codebases.

> > In the meantime, however, we need to keep Emacs compatible with
> > multiple-major-mode modes some other way.
>
> See above.

I'm not seeing anything "above" that satisfies the condition of "in the 
meantime".

There's no patch for the islands feature proposed, but you want us to 
accept the comment-cache now-ish.