Re: [vile] TCL highlighting

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:53:06PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I may have found a minor bug in the syntax highlighting for TCL. This
> has to do with TCL commands interpolated inside string literals.
> 
> So this works as expected:
> 
> tcl_command "string literal arg"
> 
> This does not:
> 
> tcl_command1 "string literal arg [tcl_command2 "args to cmd2"]"
> 
> The literal highlighting for tcl_command1 stops at the second '"'
> character. I suppose it's subjective as to if it should stop at the
> 4th '"' or the first '['.
> 
> It would be nice if it stopped at the '[', parsed the content between
> the '[' and ']' as a command and continued the string literal after
> the ']' up to the closing '"'.

That's probably doable - hadn't noticed that tcl had that feature, since it's
been a while since I wrote any tcl (I've done this for other filters)

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