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bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:50:11 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Nakada-san,
Could you help review Pål de Vibe's proposed fix to the following
problem in Emacs ruby-mode? Thanks.
Pål de Vibe <pauldevibe@yahoo.no> writes:
>> ruby-mode will misunderstand a ruby double-quoted string literal which
>> contains a single quote and ends with a question mark. It thinks that
>> the string literal is unterminated, which contaminates the syntax
>> highlighting for the remainder of the buffer.
>>
>> Example ruby code which will demonstrate the problem:
>>
>> ["Is 'this' a string?"], [:something, :else]
>>
>> If there's anything between the question mark and the terminating
>> double-quote, the string will be correctly interpreted.
>
> Line 1185:
> ("\\(^\\|[^\\\\]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*[?$]\\([#\"'`]\\)" 3 (1 . nil))
>
> A workaround (with, to me, uknown consequences) is to remove the
> question mark from the line, like this:
>
> ("\\(^\\|[^\\\\]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*[$]\\([#\"'`]\\)" 3 (1 . nil))
- bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode,
Chong Yidong <=