Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue - Patch for beginning-of-defun-raw.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> All this (apparently) because cc-mode wants to use
>> syntax-ppss-toplevel-pos via this function rather than calling
>> it directly?

> Alan had a point because the old definition of `beginning-of-defun-raw'
> was not entirely correct for `open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' nil.

The "not entirely correct" is only applicable in one particular
interpretation of the intent of beginning-of-defun and
open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start.  There's no good reason to choose
this interpretation.

>> I want to remove that code and go back to what it was before, unless I can
>> find a *good* explanation for why it needs to be in beginning-of-defun-raw.
> This won't resolve the problem that a `backward-sexp' may take two
> seconds to execute.  _Before_ Alan's change.

Indeed, it's unrelated.


        Stefan