Re: Removing no-back-reference restriction from syntax-propertize-rules

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

> In AUCTeX we use them to match macros with choosable delimiter, e.g.,
> \verb|foo| which could as well be written as \verb-foo- or \verb/foo/.

Hmm... in tex-mode.el we do:

    ("\\\\verb\\**\\([^a-z@*]\\)"
      (1 (prog1 "\""
           (tex-font-lock-verb
            (match-beginning 0) (char-after (match-beginning 1))))))))

and indeed, `tex-font-lock-verb` then restricts it to only match on
a single-line, so a regexp with a backref would be simpler (I think
I evolved that code from that of perl-mode.el where regexp operations
can take similarly delimited args, but those can span several lines so
a regexp was not appropriate).

> Another example is in the minted.el style for things like
> \mintinline[lisp]|(setq foo 1)| and there might be more occurrences in
> user-defined styles.

\lstinline (from `listings` package) is probably another example, yes.


        Stefan