Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Stefan Monnier]

> By the way, wouldn't it make sense to define `syntax-begin-function' for
> perl-mode?  Something like a "well-formed" `sub' starting in column zero
> - ignoring any syntax-table properties.  I believe it would be less
> costly to run both `font-lock-fontify-syntactic-keywords-region' and
> `font-lock-fontify-syntactically-region' from such a position.

Setting syntax-begin-function is not enough because currently the
font-lock-syntactically-fontified logic does not take advantage of
syntax-begin-function.


        Stefan