Re: Makefile mode comment color didn't notice backslash continuation

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:

  dj> Gentlenerds, Makefile mode has blown it by making comment_B appear in
  dj> command color when in fact it is a comment just like comment_A:
  dj> $ cat Makefile

  dj> a:
  dj>   echo hello # comment_A \
  dj>   comment_B

Personally I believe this is wrong as well, but suggest a different
solution: none of this text should be colorized as a comment.

In makefile mode, makefile comments should be colored as comments and
other text which is not makefile comments should not be.

In the above example _none_ of that text is a makefile comment, because
the entirety of any line beginning with a TAB is considered a command
script, and make does not do any comment processing on command script
lines (it can't, actually).

It may or may not be interpreted as a shell comment, once make invokes
the shell (assuming you don't set SHELL to something else)... neither
make nor makefile-mode in Emacs can know that.


In short (too late...) the font-locking in makefile mode should ignore
everything except make variables for colorization in a line that begins
with a TAB (that's what make does, after all...)

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