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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: "Aidan Gauland" <aidalgol@fastmail.net>
Cc: 35132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35132: 25.2; Single-quote in numbers not handled properly by font-lock
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 03:09:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvfebjxk.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <deceb219-1a1a-4e9e-bf26-43c3fef6931d@www.fastmail.com> (Aidan Gauland's message of "Wed, 03 Apr 2019 18:18:54 -0400")

"Aidan Gauland" <aidalgol@fastmail.net> writes:

> As of C++14, the single-quote character can be used as a digit separator (see
> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3781.pdf>). This case
> is not handled by c++-mode font-lock, which can mess up parsing of the entire
> buffer in code using digit separators. For example, in the attached example
> program, the first three zeroes on line 5 have the string face, and the text
> from the next digit separator to the end of the buffer also has the string face,
> overriding all other syntax highlighting for the rest of the code.

Support for this was added in Emacs 26.1[1], which was released 28th May
2018.

[1]: Make C++ digit separators work.  Amend the handling of single quotes generally
  2017-07-01 15:43:07 +0000
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=59d07875df9d44568d93a7517853e6a5ccaf1e5b

-- 
Basil





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2019-04-03 22:18 bug#35132: 25.2; Single-quote in numbers not handled properly by font-lock Aidan Gauland
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