Re: longlines-mode: font-lock fails (in outline-mode)

[David Reitter]

Chong Yidong wrote:

> Only the "New translations... in the" part is highlighted.  If this  
> is not
> a problem, neither should it be a problem when longlines-mode is  
> turned
> on.\

I can't quite agree: if you have a soft-newline, that means that the  
headline (to be marked) continues in the next line. The user has not  
pressed return! It's like a normal line-wrap.
The syntax highlighting should take into account what the compiler  
(eventually) gets to see (in the case of source code) or what gets  
written to file.

Given that longlines-mode shows that kind of behavior in other major  
modes as well (e.g. python mode - i reported a bug recently), I think  
that Richard's suggestion about making '.' match  soft-newlines might  
be a good idea and a general solution to this class of problems. One  
would obviously want to make sure that the newlines-indicator (I  
don't know how this is implemented) is unique so that the change of  
regexp matching doesn't have knock-on effects in other contexts.

-D