Re: [make-mode.el] Multi-line font locking not working correctly

[Richard Stallman]

    Of these five colons only the one before "x" is special. Without 
    highlighting the multiline string assigned to var "b:c" looks like a 
    rule, as does the last line. And prior to my rework, the colon in 
    ${var:a=b} was also recognized as a rule separator.

That is a bug, but the behavior of the code I removed was simply
intolerable--a much worse bug.

Here's the original message.

From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 20:08:39 +0200
Subject: [make-mode.el] Multi-line font locking not working correctly

Suppose you want to type the following lines into a new Makefile:

FOO = bar \
        bar \
        bar

If you type everything by hand from top to bottom, as soon as <TAB> is
typed on the third line, fontification of the second line will
disappear.  Content typed in the third line will not be fontified
either.