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bug#16915: 24.3.50; [ruby-mode] Comments in regexps using the extended s
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#16915: 24.3.50; [ruby-mode] Comments in regexps using the extended syntax are not font-locked properly |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:04:00 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Ideally, we'd have a new kind of syntax instead of strings (native
> regexp support?), which would make font-lock fontify comments inside.
This is not completely new. We have a similar problem for example with
TeX's math $...$ and with PostScript's strings (...(...)..).
> Or maybe a modifier on the string syntax?
My preference would be to think about it as a "multi-mode" case, and
hence make it possible to specify a different syntax-table to use within
the regexp.
I think of it along the lines of a new syntax-class, applied to the "/"
char, which would change the syntax-table for the subsequent text.
Stefan