Re: info faces for strings and quotations

[Luc Teirlinck]

Juri Linkov wrote:

   But OTOH, there are some places where it fails on legitimate constructs.

That is unavoidable.  Info files do not contain enough information to
do the job reliably.  The .texi source files do but using the .texi
files is taboo, because it would not allow the Texinfo language to
change independently of Emacs.  The XML output format does.  Oliver
Scholz is working on that.

   While I think this feature is useful enough to be ON by default,
   expect a lot of bug reports unless these problems are fixed.

That is exactly why the feature should not only be off by default, but
that in addition the user should be told that the feature does not aim
for perfection and occasionally can result in anomalous fontification.
The user has to know that these problems are a known and unavoidable
consequence of the heuristic, as opposed to fixable bugs, and that
filing a bug report would be futile.  The user should know that if he
is not willing to live with these problems, he should simply not turn
the feature on.

Sincerely,

Luc.