Re: Bug #22983 (syntax-ppss returns wrong result) is still open. Could we fix it before the release, please.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/08/2016 01:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I think I'd be happy enough about it being fixed in master, if the fix
> happens before the release.  :-).  The trouble is, if there's no
> deadline, it'll never get fixed.

Why before the release in particular?

If you're interested in having it fixed sooner, please look into helping 
Vitalie in 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00850.html. 
With hard-widen, maybe we won't need syntax-ppss-dont-widen after all.

> Yes, I think having the binary toggle `syntax-ppss-dont-widen' purely to
> direct the innards of the function is poor programming (since it
> explicitly toggles a toggle inside a supposedly abstract function).

Abstract?

> I
> think an improvement would be to dispense with that toggle, and have two
> distinct functions, one in place of `syntax-ppss-dont-widen' being nil,
> and the other in place of `s-p-d-w' being non-nil.  The latter function
> might usefully have an extra parameter specifying the base point that
> parse-partial-sexp should be calculated from.  That would leave quite a
> few options open for the internal logic of the function.

That wouldn't help in the multi-mode case, which is the primary use I 
have in mind for syntax-ppss-dont-widen.