From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:16:38 -0300 Message-ID: References: <4FF8F6BA-1095-429E-A08E-42EC0CFE4B43@northwestern.edu> <139083.40321.qm@web28507.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <87k4fcma4c.fsf_-_@stupidchicken.com> <87ipunnozh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302579451 25836 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2011 03:37:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A5l?= de Vibe , Nobuyoshi Nakada , 5757@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 05:37:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from [140.186.70.17] (helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UPt-0003DZ-RI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:37:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49965 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UPt-0008Fr-ED for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UPq-0008FJ-0L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:37:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UPp-0003w0-2p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:37:21 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UPo-0003vw-Td for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UCw-0000Yj-3B; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:24:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:24:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 5757 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5757-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5757.13025785912092 (code B ref 5757); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:24:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5757) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Apr 2011 03:23:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UC7-0000Xh-BF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9UC5-0000XV-SM for 5757@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p3C3OMun014988; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 72463660EF; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:16:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ipunnozh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:34:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3824=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <3824> : streams <620207> : uri <848736> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:24:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 140.186.70.17 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45769 Archived-At: >> His proposed fix is not correct: in ruby (like in Elisp) ? is used >> for chars (including ?' and ?") and $' and $" are also special vars, so >> his fix just disables the special treatment of ?. >> For Emacs-24, we use a different chunk of code which doesn't suffer from >> this problem (mostly calling syntax-ppss to determine if we're inside >> a string). > Is this worth backporting to Emacs 23? If not, let's close this bug. I think it's more important to keep in touch with the upstream maintainers. E.g. I still haven't heard anything from them regarding the changes I've made for syntax-propertize (which happen to fix the OP's problem). I'm worried we might not stay in sync. Stefan