On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

>
> There is such a rule: the definition of lua-syntax-propertize begins by
> calling lua-syntax-propertize-string-or-comment-end which:
>
>    and then in lua-syntax-propertize-string-or-comment I'd use syntax-ppss
>    to check the parser state (i.e. determine if I'm in a type-b comment or
>    delimited-string corresponding to a long-bracket construct as opposed to
>    some type-a comment or standard string, or plain old code), and if I'm
>    in one of those long-bracket-constructs, use (nth 8 ppss) to find the
>    beginning, count the number of = used there, then search for the
>    matching ]==] pattern and place the matching "> b" or "|" syntax on the
>    second closing bracket.
>
> so while the second call is for "end1+1 ... end2", your code will go
> back to the beginning of the long bracket to figure out its end and then
> look for that end again (which might show up before end2 this time, tho
> maybe not).
>
>
Oh, my bad. Thanks a lot for your help!

>
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Cheers,
immerrr