Re: font-lock bug in cc-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

>> emacs -Q +132 .../emacs/src/lisp.h
>> Inserting space + undoing will sort it out, so it might be triggered
>> by the chunking done by jit-lock.

> Increasing jit-lock-chunk-size to 2000 makes this fontification glitch
> go away.

You mean it solves this instance of the glitch.  It will still occur in
different circumstances.

> From looking at the cc-fonts:1478, it appears that
> identifiers in enum lists are only fontified up to the limit supplied
> by jit-lock.  Therefore, very long enum lists don't get fontified.

It can happen with short lists as well, since all that matters is that the
limit is somewhere inside the enum.


        Stefan