Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] syntax: perl: don't color the character after a variable name

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 11-08-19 om 21:18 schreef Brand Huntsman:
> That ranged punctuation set in third regex obscures what characters it 
> actually highlights, does it contain the $ character?

Yes.  I look at 'man ascii' to figure out the ranges.

> Because $$var only highlights the $var for me.

It worked fine for me.

>> +color cyan "[$@%&]([A-Za-z_][0-9A-Za-z_]*|\^[][A-Z^_?\]|[0-9]+)\>"
>> +color cyan "[$@%&]\{(\^?[A-Za-z_][0-9A-Za-z_]*|[0-9]+)\}"
> 
> The second regex is missing the \^[][^?\] characters from \^[][A-Z^_?\].
> 
> "[$@%&]\{(\^?[A-Za-z_][0-9A-Za-z_]*|\^[][^?\]|[0-9]+)\}"

Thanks.  I've just changed the order to ASCII order (except for the
square brackets, of course).

>> +color cyan "\$([][!-.:-@`|~]|\{[][!-/:-@\`|~]\})"
> 
> The bracketed punctuation should support all sigils.

Okay.  See upcoming V6.

> And what about moving the $@%& punctuation to a separate regex? Non-sigil 
> punctuation could then use all four sigils.

Okay.

Benno

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