[TxMt] Re: Unnecessary commenting line in modern fortran mode

[Kaster Might]

Thanks Steve, it helped.

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:32:53 -0400, Steve King wrote:
> On 2011-03-30 18:52, Kaster Might wrote:
>> If some variable starts with "C", the whole line which contains that 
>> variable and where it at the very first place highlighted as comment. 
>> I suppose it comes from old F77 style, where C denotes comment, but 
>> it's not necessary now. Is there any way to fix it? My current 
>> way-around is to put single space before that variable, but in this 
>> case overall code doesn't look as nice as before.
>
> The 'Fortran - Modern' bundle inherits this behavior from 'Fortran - 
> Punchcard'.  Modern makes an attempt to flag lines beginning with 'C' 
> as invalid, but only if the 'C' is followed by whitespace. Punchcard 
> treats any line beginning with 'C' as a comment.
>
> I think the easiest way to work around this is to edit the Punchcard 
> language definition to change the 'begin' expression for 
> 'comment.line.c.fortran' from '^[Cc]' to '^[Cc]\s+', which requires 
> comments to start with 'C' followed by whitespace.. This may not 
> strictly adhere to the language spec, but it probably matches common 
> practice.  And if you're not using the older F77 style it won't matter 
> anyway.
>
>     {   name = 'comment.line.c.fortran';
>         begin = '^[Cc]\s+';
>         end = '$\n?';
>         beginCaptures = { 0 = { name = 
> 'punctuation.definition.comment.fortran'; }; };
>         patterns = ( { match = '\\\s*\n'; } );
>     },
>
> (Wow, FORTRAN...  That takes me back to 1984 and the start of 
> college.  That was the first year the freshman FORTRAN class was 
> taught using an interactive terminal instead of on punch cards.  Of 
> course, it was on VM/CMS which implemented a virtual card punch/reader 
> system, but at least we had the glorified virtual card punch that was 
> XEDIT.)
>


-- 
Kaster Might

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