Re: bad syntax highlighting in shell-script mode

[Chris Moore]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:37 +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
> I'll see about extending the "manual parser" to cope with multiline-ness
> if you think it's worth it.

I recently discovered that I rely on syntax highlighting more than I
previously realised.  Due to this \` problem, a large section of the
script I was working on was coloured as if it was a string, rather than
being in the usual 'script' colours.  My eye just jumped over the code,
assuming it must be a comment, since they're a similar, uniform colour.

The syntax highlighting in Emacs has become so good that people do trust
it, and use it as an aid to getting an overview of code, so I think it's
worth getting it right in these corner cases too.