Re: font-locking and open parens in column zero

[Stefan Monnier]

> +++
> *** font-lock: in modes like C and Lisp where the fontification assumes that
> an open-paren in column 0 is always outside of any string or comment,
> font-lock now highlights any such open-paren-in-column-zero in bold-red
> if it is inside a string or a comment, to indicate that it can cause
> trouble with fontification and/or indentation.

> This entry is wrong: In C mode open parens in column 0 are not
> highlighted in bold-red, probably due to the test

Indeed, C mode has changed since this was written.  Thanks for spotting it.

> In addition, it might seem reasonable to check whether the settings of
> `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' conflict with the approach used
> by `font-lock-compile-keywords'.  Currently, any user settings for
> `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' are overridden by C mode.

This feature is unrelated to open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start AFAIK.


        Stefan