bug#22867: cperl mode highlights %d, but misses %.6f

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 07 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> That font locking is actually a bug:
>
>            ("\\(\\([@%]\\|\\$#\\)[a-zA-Z_:][a-zA-Z0-9_:]*\\)" 1
>             (if (eq (char-after (match-beginning 2)) ?%)
>                 'cperl-hash-face
>               'cperl-array-face)
>             t)                        ; arrays and hashes
>
> It's interpreting this as a hash called %d...  but we're inside a
> string, so it's not a hash.
>
> At this point, the string has already been fontised...  So how do we
> avoid doing this stuff if we're in a string?  Cc'd Stefan for
> expertise.  :-)

Replace t by nil or 'keep.

Andreas.

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