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From: | Ludwig PACIFICI |
Subject: | Re: Include modern-cpp-font-lock into GNU Emacs |
Date: | Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:16:37 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 |
Hello Alan, Thank you for your reply.
In what respects is this package an improvement over the fontification in standard C++ Mode?
About two years ago, when I was writing C++ programs, I wanted to have a quick fix for the missing fontification. It is not an improvement from standard C++ mode, but a quicker way to get the font lock up to date.
Do you have an up to date diff betweeen m-c-f-l.el and C++ Mode - things that m-c-f-l handles, but C++ Mode doesn't?
No. In my opinion, I should do that diff, and, if any, contact you via cc-mode project to reduce the gap?
I think I would prefer to integrate missing font locking into CC Mode, rather than introducing a new ad-hoc package which doesn't fit well with CC Mode. But I do accept your comment about the rate of release of C++ Mode.
I believe the issue is broader than m-c-f-l and cc-mode. The difference between an Emacs release cycle (where Emacs provides a built-in support for some languages, like cc-mode, python, ruby-mode, etc.) and the release cycle of a language can lead to a long delay to get things right (such as font locking). Having the language support delivered via a package manager makes the updates less dependent of release cycles.
Ludwig
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