bug#9217: 23.1; can't escape quotes preceded by certain characters in perl-mode

[Stefan Kangas]

Gabriel Simon <gabrielmsimon@gmail.com> writes:

> When I try to escape quotes with a backslash, within quotes, the coloring in
> perl-mode breaks in a very specific way.  It depends entirely on the 
> characters
> that precede the backslash.  For example, this works fine:
>
> $a = " x \"string\"";
>
> but if you replace the 'x' with m, q, s, or y, then Emacs thinks you're still
> inside a quote.
>
> You can find a screenshot here:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/mG6ey.jpg
>
> I've tried this in emacs 23.1, 23.2, and 22.2 on Windows and Linux and the
> problem is the same in all of these versions.
>
> Thanks
>
> --Gabe

Hi,

I can't reproduce this on Emacs 26.2, the latest version of Emacs.
(I failed to reproduce it on Emacs 25.1 as well.)

Since the bug was reported 8 years ago, I will assume that this bug has
been fixed in the meantime.  I am therefore closing this bug.

If you can still reproduce this issue on the latest version of Emacs,
please report back and we can re-open the issue.

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas