Re: Emacs 23.2 plans

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Yidong,

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:46:44PM -0500, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Stefan and I plan to begin the Emacs 23.2 pretest in the beginning of
> December.  Accordingly, we will be imposing a freeze on new features
> (i.e., anything that is not a bugfix) within the next few weeks.  The
> target for Emacs 23.2 is March next year; as usual, the actual release
> will depend on how pretesting goes.

> If you are planning to make any significant changes to the tree, please
> let us know ASAP (i.e. now), so that we can plan/comment accordingly.

Yes.  I am enhancing CC Mode's function `c-parse-state' so that it can
handle "brace deserts" (source files with few or no braces) at a
tolerable speed.  Currently, (in a file supplied by Dave Milter, who
reported the bug), scrolling back a screen from EOB takes several
seconds.

This change involves ~1200 new lines of code in cc-engine.el, and is
about "99% complete".  I anticipate commiting it in a few days time,
before the end of the month.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).