From 94b562dc87b34607a60d4f20e0fd7f100aa5590e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Stjernholm Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:28:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] A bit more talk about an API change in CC Mode. --- etc/NEWS | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index c4dfab45598..903782aefe0 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1094,11 +1094,25 @@ per-mode basis through c-require-final-newline. The default is to set it to t only in languages that mandate a final newline in source files (C, C++ and Objective-C). -*** Slight API change for the syntactic context used by lineup functions. -The syntactic context stored in c-syntactic-context has been changed -to allow more information. This might affect custom lineup functions, -but only if they use that variable directly. See its docstring for -more details. +*** Format change for syntactic context elements. +The elements in the syntactic context returned by c-guess-basic-syntax +and stored in c-syntactic-context has been changed somewhat to allow +attaching more information. They are now lists instead of single cons +cells. E.g. a line that previously had the syntactic analysis + +((inclass . 11) (topmost-intro . 13)) + +is now analysed as + +((inclass 11) (topmost-intro 13)) + +In some cases there are more than one position given for a syntactic +symbol. + +This change might affect code that call c-guess-basic-syntax directly, +and custom lineup functions if they use c-syntactic-context. However, +the argument given to lineup functions is still a single cons cell +with nil or an integer in the cdr. *** API changes for derived modes. There have been extensive changes "under the hood" which can affect -- 2.39.2