Re: master 4b39b74: python.el: don't syntax-propertize single/double quoted strings

[Andreas Röhler]

On 11.04.19 01:59, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 11:18, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > > This causes python-tests--python-nav-end-of-statement--infloop to fail.
> > > Hmm... I can't find a better way than to disable it, sorry.
> > But that test was added to prevent regression of an actual bug, right?
> > Did your commit reintroduce the bug? If so, disabling the test doesn't sound 
> > ideal…
> I think the related report is Bug#30964, but there was never a clear
> reproducer for it. The commit that introduced the test is [1: 4fbd330fae],
> whose commit message says: "[...] Unfortunately it is
> impossible to reproduce without manually destroying the syntactic
> information in the Python buffer, but it has been observed in
> practice [...]".
>
> [1: 4fbd330fae]: 2017-03-23 23:05:19 +0100
>    Protect against an infloop in python-mode
>    
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=4fbd330fae54a9c45d4a717127aa86d75e9938d5

Hi,

if syntax-ppss is the cause, than that kind of bug is sourced in other 
places/modes too. As fixing syntax-ppss seems difficult, being 
interested to learn about cases, where it can't be replaced by calls to 
parse-partial-sexp.

Best,

Andreas