GNU bug report logs - #16834
24.3.50; num3-mode detects long hex numbers as decimal

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Bennée <kernel-hacker <at> bennee.com>

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:13:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>
Cc: 16834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Bennée <kernel-hacker <at> bennee.com>
Subject: bug#16834: 24.3.50; num3-mode detects long hex numbers as decimal
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:52:47 -0500

> Perhaps this would be better:

> (defconst num3--number-re
>   (concat "[0#][xX]\\([[:xdigit:]]+\\)"      ; 1 = hexadecimal
>        "\\|\\(?1:\\b\\(?:[0-9]+[a-fA-F]\\|"  ; 1 = hexadecimal
>                 "[a-fA-F]+[0-9]\\)[[:xdigit:]]*\\b\\)"  
>        "\\|\\([0-9]+\\)"                         ; 2 = decimal
>        "\\|\\.\\([0-9]+\\)"))                    ; 3 = fraction

> So there would have to be at least one decimal digit and the whole
> sequence would have to be a complete word (i.e. 1000Ah, which would be
> a pretty big battery, won't be highlighted as a hexadecimal number).

Sounds good.  Can you install that?


        Stefan
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