[TxMt] Re: bug in syntax highlighting?

[Thomas Blom]

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!

Thanks again.  -thomas

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko <bibiko at eva.mpg.de> wrote:

>
> 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. test.pl) 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";
> >       }
> > }
>
>
> 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
>
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