Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Daniel Colascione]

On 6/7/21 6:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  acm@muc.de,  dancol@dancol.org,
> >    emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:20:22 -0400
> >
> > > Unless `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' is non-nil.
> > We can use hacks like this one, indeed, but it's not in fashion
> > nowadays.
> Yes, we prefer waiting forever for Emacs to respond to a TAB or RET,
> and are okay with "random" fontification which triggered this thread.
> The price of fashion, I guess.

If a modern machine you're waiting "forever" to syntactically scan the 
buffer from BOB, something is very wrong. There's just no reason to use 
hacks like open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start, especially if we can 
checkpoint parsing.