[slime-devel] Re: slime-display-edit-hilights

[Paul Weiss]

FWIW, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.4.1, and I don't have syntax-ppss either.
This is the current emacs for Fedora Core 4.


On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:16:21 -0500, Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com>  
wrote:

> "Stefan Kamphausen" <skampi at gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Von: Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com>
>>> > "Marco Baringer" <mb at bese.it> writes:
>>> >
>>> >> nikodemus fixed this yesterday..
>>> >
>>> > Hmmm. I see his entry in the ChangeLog but I still get the
>>> > highlighting in the REPL.
>>>
>>
>> I think a problem that occurred this morning after updateting slime is
>> connected to this.  I found a log message from Marco stating:
>>
>>> Got rid of message about setting up face
>>> and skipping edit-hilights when in a comment.
>>
>> In the CVS mail archives.  I think for that you introduced the defun
>> in-comment-p.  First of all I think it should be renamed to
>> slime-in-comment-p and second it doesn't work on my XEmacs which has no
>> syntax-ppss-function.
>>
>> I tried to come up with a portable solution but I know too little of
>> syntax-tables and a little web research on the origins of syntax-ppss
>> yielded no result for me other than that I can't find it even in the  
>> source
>> of xemacs-21.5.24.
>
> I got this message this morning from someone who noticed the use of
> syntax-ppss:
>
>   Recent FSF Emacsen offer a function `expand-in-literal' (in
>   expand.el) which shows how to use `parse-partial-sexp' directly
>   instead, and that code is much more portable (even to XEmacs).
>
> I'll try and take a look at that but I don't have XEmacs to test
> against so maybe you'll want to take a crack at it yourself. Or at
> least look for my forthcoming patch and test it in XEmacs and let us
> know how it works.
>
>> For todays work I will remove the in-comment-p call in
>> self-insert-function and I hope for some help of you guys.
>
> Should be coming soon.
>
> -Peter
>