Re: regexp does not work as documented

[David Koppelman <koppel@ece.lsu.edu>]

I *am* able to reproduce the font-lock-multiline limitation martin
described if the buffer is in text mode. I had tried to reproduce it
in emacs-lisp mode.

First I'll work on the hi-lock warning as I described below, then I'll
see about detecting and doing something helpful for additional
situations where multi-line won't work.

David Koppelman <koppel@ece.lsu.edu> writes:

> I was able to reproduce the problem with Bruno Haible's testcase and
> font-lock-multiline t does "fix" it. However martin rudalics warns that
> font-lock-multiline won't work for all cases and provides an example
> idea (below). I can't get that to fail. That is, with
> font-lock-multiline t the text was correctly fontified (though after a
> pause). My realization of the example was to remove and then add the
> first quotation mark from one of the interior lines below (also
> tried with more quoted lines):
>
> msgstr ""
> "Project-Id-Version: GNU gettext-tools 0.16.2-pre5\n"
> "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org\n"
> "POT-Creation-Date: 2007-11-02 03:23+0100\n"
> "PO-Revision-Date: 2007-10-27 13:35+0200\n"
> "Last-Translator: Christophe Combelles <ccomb@free.fr>\n"
> "Last-Translator: Christophe Combelles <ccomb@free.fr>\n"
> x
>
> The fix I'm contemplating would be to warn the user when a multi-line
> regexp was added interactively and font-lock-multiline was nil, and then
> perhaps to offer to set font-lock-multiline to t (or to not set it, or
> to stop asking).