Re: [sigra@home.se: C++-mode: Syntax highlighting: wrong color for function identifier depending on the kind of whitespace that follows]

[Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek@etla.org>]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I am convinced that, in the long term, we need an analogous, fast, global
> mechanism for for locating and characterizing regions bounded by
> arbitrary delimiters - in this case "<<" and ">>", but could just as well
> be Texinfo's "{" and "}" or Lex's and Yacc's "%{", "%}" and "%%" or
> "literate programing"'s boundaries between narrative text and executable
> code, or "here documents" within a shell script.
>
> Until we have this, I think we'll be entangling ourselves in an ever
> stickier web of ad-hoc workarounds.

For what it's worth (sticking my oar in) I agree - and it would be even 
better if such regions could be arbitrarily put into other major modes...
(although that's more of a blue-sky wishlist thing...)

I believe mmm-mode tries do do something along these lines but from what I 
hear it's quite hard to set up and get working.




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