[TxMt] Bug report: Perl syntax highlighting [version 1.0.2b10#553]
Xavier Noria
fxn at hashref.com
Wed Dec 8 23:39:26 UTC 2004
A few issues in the syntax highlighting done by Perl's bundle.
The first one I think it's typically hard to get right: here-docs are
not recognised. This not only means that they are not colourised as
strings, but that their content can fool the rest of the highlighting,
for instance if there's an unbalanced quote. (Sometimes a fake comment
can help there though.)
POD sections are not recognised either, so not only they are not
coloured but Perl keywords are highlighted in regular English (for, if,
while, ...).
On the other side, hash elements are no correctly highlighted. In
$foo{bar} = "baz";
the red for variables goes beyond the "{" and stops at the "r":
$foo{bar
If "bar" is quoted the highlighting is correct though, curlies in black
and the string in green.
In the broken example I'd expect the curlies in black, and the key in
green because it's autoquoted by Perl. Green to the left of =>s would
be good as well, as words there are also autoquoted. Both conventions
for autoquoted stuff are followed by CPerl and the Perl mode for Vim.
q(), qq(), and their variants are not highlighted as strings either.
-- fxn
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