Re: Feature request/RFC: proper highlighting of code embedded in comments

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Thanks!  How is the package called? I don't see it list-packages :/

It's called sm-c-mode.  And no, it's not in GNU ELPA, it's in elpa.git.

> The issue here is that “What a great example” is a string.  I tried
> using a syntactic face function to mark the last ‘>’ as a string
> closer and the newline as a string opener,

Never set `syntax-table` text properties from
font-lock-syntactic-face-function (this will bring nothing but
problems that are difficult to track down).  Been there, done that.
Do it from syntax-propertize-function.

> but that confused the existing function, which expects the docstring
> starter to be ‘"""’, not ‘\n’.  Even after fixing this, python-mode
> was unusable: it inflooped when trying to find a whole defun, because
> the nav-end-of-defun function isn't ready to accept ‘\n’ as
> a string starter.

Sounds like you need to adjust other parts of the code, yes.

Alternatively, don't use `syntax-table` text properties at all, and
highlight the nested strings "by hand" (with regexps and/or manual
parsing).


        Stefan