Re: [vile] tcl syntax filter

[Wayne Cuddy]

I should add that line continuation can operate on a number of different
TCL constructs, not just string literals. So it should hold true for a
proc call, proc definition, brace literals... essentially carry over the
state from the current line.

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 01:57:43PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> Not sure if this is an easy fix or not as I've not looked at the code
> but the TCL syntax highlighter does not seem to recognize the line
> continuation character (\) while processing string literals, it
> terminates at the end of the line.
> 
> The following works:
> 
> set mystring "this is my string"
> 
> However in the next fragment '"this is line1\' is highlighted correctly
> but 'this is line2' is not, and '" ;# comment' is highlighted
> as a string literal.
> 
> set mystring "this is line1\
>     this is line2" ;# my comment
> 
> Wayne
> 
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