bug#11739: 24.1; font-lock (highlighting) bug with dollar+quote sequence ('...$')

[Vincent Lefevre]

Open the following file with "emacs -Q <filename>":

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#!/usr/bin/env perl
# -*- mode: cperl -*-

$foo = 'blah $ '
  and print "$foo\n";  # OK

$foo = 'blah $'
  and print "$foo\n";  # Incorrectly highlighted
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The first "and print ..." line is correctly highlighted, but not the
second one. It seems that CPerl is confused by a $ at the end of a
single-quote string literal.

This is a regression: GNU Emacs 23.4.1 from Debian does not have this
problem.


In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-06-15 on ypig
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11201902
Configured using:
 `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-24.1' '--enable-asserts''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: en_DK
  value of $LANG: POSIX
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<escape> x r e p o <tab> r t - b u <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /home/vlefevre/share/emacs/site-lisp/mutteditor.el (source)...done
Loading time...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...

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