Emacs' python-mode buggy?
Christopher Petrilli
petrilli at trump.amber.org
Thu Apr 29 00:39:00 EDT 1999
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
> [Markus Stenberg]
>> At least by my experiences the Emacs mode (at least, two versions I
>> tried, 3.75 and whatever came with Python 1.5.2) seems to have tons of
>> bugs;
> Yes, that would be entirely Barry Warsaw's fault -- pymode had no bugs when
> I worked on it, and Barry is a known drug addict. Well, all right, I was
> the drug addict, and I lied about Barry -- but I'm sure it's still all his
> fault <wink>.
Barry's a musician, 'nuff said. :-) But he likes Indian food, so he must
be Dutch... do those cancel out? :-)
>> to be more precise, it seems to think a lot more of my code than should
>> be is string (and therefore is green and indentation doesn't work).
> Offhand, that sounds like one bug. Try posting a minimal failing example?
> Amorphous griping doesn't help. If you searched DejaNews before posting,
> you may have noticed that reports of pymode bugs are conspicuous by absence.
WEll, I have noticed some problems with tripple-quoted strings on occasion,
but I see similar problems in other modes, so I THINK it's something to do
with how (x)emacs applie the font-lock-mode parameters.
Chris
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