[TxMt] Java highlighting breaks when a declaration spreads multiple lines

[Allan Odgaard]

On 20/09/2007, at 01:30, Mark Day wrote:

> [...]
> This is a known issue.  And it's not just Java.  For performance  
> reasons, TextMate examines only one line of the file at a time when  
> matching against the grammar's regular expressions.  No one line of  
> your declaration is a match for the regular expression.
>
> While you could modify the grammar to accept an incomplete  
> declaration, it would probably result in lots of false positive  
> matches.
>
> Allan has mentioned he wants to address this in version 2.

Actually, I said “not even for 2.0”: http://lists.macromates.com/pipermail/textmate/2007-June/020383.html

There is some stuff in 2.0 related to multi-line constructs, but I  
think it is really only useful for Markdown.

Long-term; probably, but 2.0; most definitely not.