From 5b8fe68482015bd3f38c933584073eb433879df2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:27:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain font lock highlighting of opening delims that should be quoted. --- man/programs.texi | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/programs.texi b/man/programs.texi index 70f3c25fd1..a05c5aff7d 100644 --- a/man/programs.texi +++ b/man/programs.texi @@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ delimiter from starting a defun. Here's an example: ") @end example + To help you catch violations of this convention, Font Lock mode +highlights confusing opening delimiters (those that ought to be +quoted) in bold red. + In the earliest days, the original Emacs found defuns by moving upward a level of parentheses or braces until there were no more levels to go up. This always required scanning all the way back to -- 2.39.2