Re: font-lock-syntactic-keywords obsolet?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/20/2016 08:23 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> Alan said 'In CC Mode, all the uses of the syntax-table property are
> "local";' and Stefan replied 'AFAICT, this doesn't actually depend on
> how the syntax-table property is
> applied[...]and indeed this also applies to all other languages I can
> think of (and hence all major modes where we use syntax-propertize).'

OK, but...

> But since you brought up multline string literals in subsequent
> discussion, it's important to note Alan's caveat (the "aside from...")
> in his definition of "local":
>
>     a buffer change in an earlier part of the buffer (aside from
>     crude syntactic things like inserting unclosed comment/string
>     delimiters) cannot affect the properties on the current part of the
>     buffer.

...there's no reason to make special consideration for the "crude 
syntactic things", because they do have the propensity to span the whole 
buffer when unclosed, and they tend to affect the application of 
syntax-table property on the "fine" syntactic things inside and outside 
of them.