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bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:34:10 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> His proposed fix is not correct: in ruby (like in Elisp) ?<char> 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.