Re: Inferior Python mode doesn't fontify correctly

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The patch below tries to fix just this one case you complain about, but
>> maybe we should go a few steps further?

> The patch makes the inferior Python buffer much easier to read, but it
> means that strings inside double quotes are fontified, while strings
> inside single quotes are, which is kind of weird.

> In most (all?) cases I've seen, it doesn't really make sense to try to
> fontify an inferior process buffer because you can never be sure
> what's going to be there.  In these cases, I think the best solution is
> to fontify the prompt and past inputs according to
> comint-highlight-prompt and comint-highlight-input, as is currently
> done, and... that's it.

Agreed.  That's what I was thinking of more or less by "go a few steps
further".


        Stefan