Re: [Nano-devel] Subtle syntax highlight + cut bug with 2.1.10

[Eitan Adler]

Chris Allegretta wrote:
> Hi Eitan,
> 
> Oh drat, I tried to make sure this wouldn't happen when adding the
> basic syntax highlight caching I added earlier in the series.  I
> assume this is not specific to 1.2.10 since not too much happened
> syntax-highlighting-wise in that release.  If you could post a
> sanitized version of the code that would be most help, otherwise if
> you could post the exact strings for the beginning comment and end
> comment I'll try and figure it out.  I generally test again nano.c's
> comments and they seemed to do the Right Thing when I would cut/paste
> them.

/*
int foo()
{
      return 0;
}
*/

cut the first comment.



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