Re: address@hidden: Re: address@hidden: sgml-mode.el]]

[Stefan Monnier]

RMS wrote:
> Can you please handle this?

I believe I have already in gnu.emacs.bug at the very beginning of the thread.

jjc wrote:
> I haven't worked on sgml-mode.el for years.  It's changed a lot since I
> worked on it.  In particular I didn't implement any of the font-lock
> support.  It would be better to get one of the people who worked on it more
> recently to look at it.

Maybe the maintainership should be turned to the FSF since most of the
recent changes to sgml-mode.el were made by other people.

> > 1. I think there *might* be a bug in line 221 of sgml-mode.el:
> >     ("<! *--.*-- *>" . font-lock-comment-face)))
> > In the HTML 4 specification (section 3.2.4), it says that there may
> > be whitespace between "--" and ">", but not between "<!" and "--".
> > Since html is sgml, I conclude that the same is true for sgml
> > (sorry, I can't find the SGML spec)

The current CVS head has fixed this.

> > 2. sgml-mode.el currently can't highlight multiline-comments.
> > This can be fixed by defining a font-lock function ? Would that be
> > too slow ?

The current CVS head has also fixed this.


        Stefan