Re: bad syntax highlighting in shell-script mode

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > Since $(...$(...)...) can be nested, does it mean that there's no way of
> > highlighting it correctly using regular expressions?
>
> It's not highlighted with regular expressions (only the initial $( is
> matched with a regexp, the rest is handled with elisp code doing "manual
> parsing").

I'll see about extending the "manual parser" to cope with multiline-ness
if you think it's worth it.