Thankyou! I didn't mean to denigrate textmate, but had been wondering why things didn't look as nice as I thought they should, when I realized the regex was causing problems!<div> </div><div>Thanks again. -thomas <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko <<a href="mailto:bibiko@eva.mpg.de">bibiko@eva.mpg.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"> On 8 Nov 2011, at 20:38, Thomas Blom wrote: > I was trying to figure out why the syntax highlighting in perl sucked so much, when I realized it was getting messed up by some regex code. > > Paste this into file (e.g. <a href="http://test.pl" target="_blank">test.pl</a>) and view in textmate. Does the 2nd function hilight correctly? It is the /\\/ regex I think - comment the first one out and watch the hilighting change. > > sub fn() { > # some perl code > my $f = shift; > if( $f =~ /\\/ ) { > my $var = "Hello"; > } > } > > sub fn2() { > # some perl code > my $f = shift; > if( $f =~ /\\/ ) { > my $var = "Hello"; > } > } </div>Hi Thomas, syntax highlighting for Perl is not so easy but in that case you can fix the highlighting if you simply make usage of the "standard" syntax in the if clauses: ... my $f = shift; if( $f =~ m/\\/ ) { .... write m// instead of // . Cheers, --Hans _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate" target="_blank">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div> </div>