I can't remember the source of this info, but I tried tracking down
information on this problem, and the (I believe) author of the Python syntax
coloring code for Emacs said this is a problem intrinsic to the Emacs
internals that can't be fixed.

Of course, I assume he's implying that it can't be fixed with a reasonable
amount of effort, but he made it sound nearly impossible.

Steve

> From: Tavis Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:04:16 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] Fixing doc strings
> 
> On June 20, 2002 12:56 pm, Mike Orr wrote:
>> Changing emacs requires somebody who understands Lisp
>> and can also analyze why the algorithm is messing up, which is
>> intrinsically difficult because ' means different things depending on
>> context going all the way back to the start of the file.  There may be
>> some Lisp programmers around, but this is a Python community, not a Lisp
>> community, so there may not be a lot.
> 
> Actually, it sounds likes it's something in Emac's C internals rather than in
> the lisp code ...  not something many people are capable of understanding,
> let alone fixing.
> 
> 
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