Re: Bug in Elisp font-locking

[Tassilo Horn]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> (defun lh/gen-predicate (label)
>>>> (defalias (intern (concat "lh/" label "-p"))
>>>             ^^^^^^
>>> In this case intern should not be highlighted, isn't it ?.
>
> Indeed.
>
>>   (defstruct struct-name ...)
>>   (defstruct (struct-name OPTIONS) ...)
>
> Also for defun in Common-Lisp, there's (defun (setf foo) ...) where
> the "setf" probably shouldn't be highlighted but the "foo" should.

The `setf' should be highlighted as a macro but not as function name as
it is right now.

>> Cc-ing emacs-devel to ask if that's ok to commit.
>
> Could explain what the patch does?

Instead of skipping over whitespace and opening parens between the
definition macro/function and the defined thing's name, it skips only
over whitespace but captures an optional opening paren.  If there's one,
then we don't font-lock with `font-lock-function-name-face'.

The valid cases where the definition macro/function defines a type like
in `cl-defstruct' still highlights the symbol after the paren (but in
`font-lock-type-face').

Or in simpler words: if the name appears after an opening paren, that
cannot be a function name so don't font-lock as such.

Bye,
Tassilo