Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 2008-02-02; Highlighting verbatim environments gets confused

[Ralf Angeli]

* Uwe Siart (2008-02-03) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Yes, but the font locking mechanisms do not mimic the behavior of
>> LaTeX or TeX and we therefore have to be live with some compromises if
>> we don't want to make the matching overly complicated or slow.
>
> Then I'd vote for keeping the current state. Perhaps it handles more
> cases correctly than it did before the April changes.

Probably.  But the effects of failure are more devastating than before
April as you could observe.  Of course, if somebody has a single dollar
sign in an unmatched verbatim environment there is not much difference.

Perhaps we should rewrite TeX in Emacs Lisp and use that for font
locking.

-- 
Ralf