From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: "Pål de Vibe" <pauldevibe@yahoo.no>,
"Nobuyoshi Nakada" <nobu@ruby-lang.org>,
5757@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:16:38 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vvg17pd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipunnozh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:34:10 -0400")
>> His proposed fix is not correct: in ruby (like in Elisp) ?<char> is used
>> for chars (including ?' and ?") and $' and $" are also special vars, so
>> his fix just disables the special treatment of ?.
>> For Emacs-24, we use a different chunk of code which doesn't suffer from
>> this problem (mostly calling syntax-ppss to determine if we're inside
>> a string).
> Is this worth backporting to Emacs 23? If not, let's close this bug.
I think it's more important to keep in touch with the upstream
maintainers. E.g. I still haven't heard anything from them regarding
the changes I've made for syntax-propertize (which happen to fix the
OP's problem). I'm worried we might not stay in sync.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 16:21 bug#5757: 23.1; String literal parse problem in ruby-mode Rhett Sutphin
2011-03-30 22:08 ` bug#5757: The line which causes the bug is 1185 Pål de Vibe
2011-04-03 0:50 ` bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 13:55 ` Pål de Vibe
2011-04-09 20:34 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-12 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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