Re: Questions about bat-generic-mode

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>]

On 2013-01-17, Pascal Quesseveur wrote:

> 2. Labels starting with ':' in goto statements are not
>    fontified. There are some cases where the ':' is required as in
>    goto :EOF. Perhaps the regexp used for fontification could be
>    modified as follows:
>  
>    "[ \t\n|]\\<\\([gG][oO][tT][oO]\\)\\>[ \t]*\\(:?\\sw+\\)?"
>
Send a patch by M-x report-emacs-bug.

> 3. comment-start is set to REM. It would be interesting to be able to
>    set it to ::
>
Its nice thing but you know that :: is an very undocumented hack (invalid
label):

  http://xset.tripod.com/tip3.htm

> 4. echo can be followed by a space or a dot (to prevent newline). In
>    the later case fontification fails. One modification could be:
>
>      '("^[@ \t]*\\([eE][cC][hH][oO]\\)\\([ \t]+\\|[.]\\)\\(\\([oO]\\([nN]\\|[fF][fF]\\)\\)\\|\\([^>|\r\n]+\\)\\)"
>        (1 font-lock-builtin-face)
>        (4 font-lock-constant-face t t)
>        (6 font-lock-string-face t t))
Send a patch by M-x report-emacs-bug.

I also provide improvement to bat-generic-mode:

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5719
                 [patch] fix bat-generic-mode highlighting pattern for CLI
                 switch.

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Best regards!