From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Xah Lee'" <xahlee@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: temp stop syntax coloring on region of mismatched quotes
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:45:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00fb01c9562f$c2a98130$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0712fc75-1c84-4b46-aaec-4417c133030d@c36g2000prc.googlegroups.com>
> sometimes in some source code, the double quote doesn't match and
> makes the rest of the code from that point on syntax colored wrong.
> Very annoying.
>
> Is there anyway to make it not syntax color the region of text where
> the quote becomes odd? For example, i have this text in the middle
> of a html file:
>
> <pre class="code">
> <img src="\([^"]+\)" alt="math surface" width="\([0-9]+\)"
> height="\
> ([0-9]+\)">
> </pre>
>
> and from this poitn on all syntax coloring gets wrong.
> My usual workaround is to add a html comment
> <!-- " -->
> right after the line, but that's kinda a pain. I wish to temporarily
> tell emacs to not do syntax coloring on the problematic region. Is
> there a way?
Temporarily? Yes: just insert another `"' character. Seriously. Remove it later,
or leave it in, in a comment, as you suggested. Typing `"' is the quickest way I
know of to handle this temporarily.
More than temporarily - e.g. for code that needs to have an unpaired `"' char:
no, not that I know of (except for adding a comment, if the code is not
read-only).
I agree about the annoyance, but this is likely to be a hard nut to crack in a
satisfactory and general way.
I highlight "..." (and `...') in Info, for instance, and the odd `"' throws off
highlighting for the rest of the current Info node (or until another odd `"').
Fortunately, this occurs rarely in Info, but it is annoying when it happens.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPlus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 2:58 temp stop syntax coloring on region of mismatched quotes Xah Lee
2008-12-04 11:00 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.1910.1228388432.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-04 11:09 ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-04 16:43 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-04 16:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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