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From: karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Date: 14 Sep 1997 00:37:56 -0700
In-Reply-To: Leonard Blanks's message of "13 Sep 1997 17:55:16 +0000"
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>>>>> "Len" == Leonard Blanks <ltb@haruspex.demon.co.uk> writes:

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:
    Karl> Is anyone else annoyed when editting perl, when a quote in a
    Karl> regex tricks font-lock, like this:

    Karl> [perl-locking.gif snipped]

    Karl> It would be good if the font-lock was aware of [^"] and \"
    Karl> type things.  Wish I knew how to fix it.

 I found the solution.  Perl allows \" to mean the same thing as " by
itself in expressions like that.  And font-lock is aware of escaped
quotation marks, so the problem goes away then.

 Perhaps TeX should be updated to allow something like that?


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