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authorRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>2002-06-26 22:27:41 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>2002-06-26 22:27:41 +0000
commit5b8fe68482015bd3f38c933584073eb433879df2 (patch)
tree3556f9148c94d153340164ef6ddcf783f54ea90c /man
parent1a0b9ae4c181568f8d31c578f8b10746545e2a15 (diff)
Explain font lock highlighting of opening delims that should be quoted.
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@@ -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