<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>can you give an example how that would work? i assume i would modify this block, </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>{<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>name = 'source.perl.mason.line';</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>begin = '^(%)';</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>end = '$';</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>beginCaptures = { 1 = { name = 'keyword.control'; }; };</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>patterns = ( { include = 'source.perl'; } );</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>},</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>but cannot figure out the proper syntax or the right boundaries to copy/paste from the perl language bundle.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>repository = {</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>line_comment = </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>{<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>name = 'comment.line.number-sign.perl';</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>match = '#.*$\n?';</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>};</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[..snip..]</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>};</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>is it not possible to copy/overload the single item from source.perl's repository?</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 29/7/2006, at 1:00, Michael Reece wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">can anyone explain why this definition in the perl language bundle includes the newline as part of the comment?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So that when you’re at the end of the line, you’re still in the single-line comment scope, e.g. for overloading of the enter key in line comments or improved visual styling (which would make the background color extend to the right window border.)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[...] if i want to change the line_comment pattern, but not miss any future updates that might come with the perl bundle, what is the right way to go about it?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In your Mason language grammar, before you include source.perl, put your own comment rule there which doesn’t include the newline -- that one will take precedence over the one you include.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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