Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Noam Postavsky]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 04:45, martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:

> So what I would vote for in this case is that font-lock would specially
> highlight the open paren that "stops seeing the comment as comment" so
> the user is aware of the fact.  Would that be so hard to implement?
> Even with a slight change in 'parse-partial-sexp' and 'syntax-ppss' that
> would accompany it.  Optionally, by default turned off, so nobody who
> wants the correct syntactic interpretation would be bothered.

I think Bug#21871 "Emacs Lisp Mode (at least): spurious parens in
column 0 don't get bold red highlighting." is related. Perhaps the
patch I posted at https://debbugs.gnu.org/21871#57 could help?