Re: [Johan Walles] perl-mode highlight breaks down on prototype

[Glenn Morris]

> With emacs22-common 22.1-0ubuntu5.1, type the following in a perl-mode
> buffer (but without the quotes):
>
> "
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> sub searchCRS($$$$$$);
> searchCRS("SELECT $cr_columns FROM CRS crs WHERE category=1 ORDER BY hours 
> DESC, created;", 24, 0, 0, "(Co)|(UC)", "problem");
>
> # Prio 2 list.
> "
>
> Note how the last comment is highlighted as string contents, not as a
> comment.  Indentation and everything else thinks it's inside a string as
> well.

This seems to be already fixed in the EMACS_22_BASE branch.

The bug reporter may care to try the 22.1.90 pretest from
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/