Re: Conditional font locking

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am posting this here because I am not sure what category this
> problem actually is.  A part of it is a bug report (because
> `tex-mode.el' gets it wrong),

IIUC this is with Emacs-CVS, so please report this bug to
emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.  We're in feature freeze so bug-fixing is
quite fashionable.

> another part is a plea for a pointer to the right documentation in case
> the problem already is solved and even another part is a request for
> enhancement of `font-lock.el' in case it is not solved yet.

It's not solved yet.  The "solutions" right now are just completely ad-hoc
and specific to each case, basically.  Even the `verbatim' handling is
a really ugly hack.  I've been toying with ideas for improving font-lock
to deal with such things (basically dealing with multiline thingies, tho
the way font-lock-multiline does it is completely insufficient: a notion of
"state" has to be added, as you suggest) but nothing's come out of it yet.

> In case the problem is better suited for emacs-devel or emacs-pretest-bug,
> please redirect.

emacs-devel@gnu.org is the right place for discussions.


        Stefan