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

[Chris Corbyn]

Ah ok thanks.  It's not really a big issue for me :)  I've been using  
TM for nearly a year and I still think it's by far the best editor  
available between windows, linux and mac.


On 20 Sep 2007, at 00:30, Mark Day wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Chris Corbyn wrote:
>
>> If I write a method declaration in an interface:
>
> <snipped declaration that spans multiple lines>
>
>> Then it breaks the highlighting.
>>
>> If I put it all on the one line then it works fine.
>
> 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.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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