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changeset 45774:71755f1fa5a4
(font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function): Doc fix.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:16:08 +0000 |
| parents | f51c8245cf98 |
| children | 25c330bebee4 |
| files | lisp/font-lock.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/font-lock.el Wed Jun 12 09:37:43 2002 +0000 +++ b/lisp/font-lock.el Wed Jun 12 12:16:08 2002 +0000 @@ -519,12 +519,17 @@ This is normally set via `font-lock-defaults'.") (defvar font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function nil - "*Non-nil means use this function to move back outside of a syntactic block. -When called with no args it should leave point at the beginning of any -enclosing syntactic block. -If this is nil, the beginning of the buffer is used (in the worst case). + "*Non-nil means use this function to move back outside all constructs. +When called with no args it should move point backward to a place which +is not in a string or comment and not within any bracket-pairs (or else, +a place such that any bracket-pairs outside it can be ignored for Emacs +syntax analysis and fontification). + +If this is nil, the beginning of the buffer is used, which is +always correct but tends to be slow. This is normally set via `font-lock-defaults'. -It is preferable to set `syntax-begin-function' instead.") +This variable is semi-obsolete; we recommend setting +`syntax-begin-function' instead.") (defvar font-lock-mark-block-function nil "*Non-nil means use this function to mark a block of text.