Re: font-lock-syntactic-keywords obsolet?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Dmitry.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:50:49PM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 06/20/2016 01:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > The code for raw strings is actually very new - it was only committed a
> > week and a half ago.  By their very nature, unterminated raw strings are
> > a problem, since the terminating delimiter could occur anywhere later in
> > the buffer.  The trick has got to be to apply some artificial limit for
> > after-change processing until that terminating delimiter is inserted.

> So what if you have a literal that's longer than your chosen limit?

The limit would only apply in the case of a raw string missing a valid
terminator.  Strictly speaking that "literal" extends to EOB.

> A s-p-f could handle that. Your solution is basically a kludge. You're
> lucky raw strings are rare in C++ now; in many other languages, a
> normal string is not limited to a single line.

My solution is a good solution.  You're welcome to point out specific
technical shortcomings, but the basic design is sound.

Raw strings are no longer rare in C++.  That was what prompted Ivan
Andrus to push me for an implementation.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).