[Python-mode] Time for a new release?

Georg Brandl georg at python.org
Fri Jan 7 12:24:16 CET 2011


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Am 06.01.2011 18:01, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
> On Jan 06, 2011, at 09:00 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
> 
>>Okay, I'll have a look at the customization issue.
> 
> It doesn't appear to affect behavior and I have no idea how to fix it, so I
> think it shouldn't block your branch.

OK, it is now merged.

>>The problem is that after applying this patch, I see larger files
>>mis-highlighted when I open them and jump to somewhere in the middle of the
>>buffer (or when the point is placed there automatically on openening, because
>>that was my last editing position).
> 
>>Basically, I guess some string boundary isn't recognized, and the highlighting
>>string <-> code is reversed: code is highlighted as string, and vice versa.
>>It can be "fixed" by moving point into a correctly highlighted region and
>>calling `font-lock-fontify-buffer'.
> 
> But with no change to the buffer other than that?  Sounds like possibly a bug
> in Emacs, though I also vaguely recall that font-lock did or does have some
> maximum limit of buffer size on which it operated.  I think this was put in at
> the time where then-modern machines really couldn't keep up with on-the-fly
> highlighting.

Meanwhile, I found the bug -- I was trying to do too much at once.  But please
do test the solution as well.

cheers,
Georg
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