Re: cc-mode fontification feels random

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 20:16:53 -0700
> 
> As long as I can remember, cc-mode fontification has felt totally 
> random, with actual faces depending on happenstance of previously-parsed 
> types, luck of the draw in jit-lock chunking, and so on. Is there any 
> *general* way that we can make fontification more robust and consistent?
> 
> For years and years now, I've been thinking we just need more 
> deterministic parser-and-based mode support, and I still think that, but 
> on a realistic level, that doesn't seem to be coming any time soon.

Full agreement.  And not only for C and C-like languages, IMO.

See

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-01/msg00059.html

See also Eglot and LSP.

Patches more than welcome, I think having this (whether tree-sitter or
some other similar technology) in core is long overdue.