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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/tools/emacs/erlang.el | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/tools/emacs/erlang.el b/lib/tools/emacs/erlang.el index 91acfdf2b6..ed825a298f 100644 --- a/lib/tools/emacs/erlang.el +++ b/lib/tools/emacs/erlang.el @@ -1481,7 +1481,23 @@ Other commands: erlang-font-lock-keywords-3 erlang-font-lock-keywords-4) nil nil ((?_ . "w")) erlang-beginning-of-clause - (font-lock-mark-block-function . erlang-mark-clause)))) + (font-lock-mark-block-function . erlang-mark-clause) + (font-lock-syntactic-keywords + ;; A dollar sign right before the double quote that ends a + ;; string is not a character escape. + ;; + ;; And a "string" has with a double quote not escaped by a + ;; dollar sign, any number of non-backslash non-newline + ;; characters or escaped backslashes, a dollar sign + ;; (otherwise we wouldn't care) and a double quote. This + ;; doesn't match multi-line strings, but this is probably + ;; the best we can get, since while font-locking we don't + ;; know whether matching started inside a string: limiting + ;; search to a single line keeps things sane. + . (("\\(?:^\\|[^$]\\)\"\\(?:[^\"\n]\\|\\\\\"\\)*\\(\\$\\)\"" 1 "w") + ;; And the dollar sign in $\" escapes two characters, not + ;; just one. + ("\\(\\$\\)\\\\\\\"" 1 "'")))))) |