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makefile colors messed up by ://

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 37934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37934: makefile colors messed up by ://
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:12:00 +0100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> $ cat makefile
> x:
> 	echo This line is the correct color.
> 	echo This line is not. Because it contains the string file:// in it.

I can confirm that this bug is still in Emacs.  The problem is this regexp:

(defvar makefile-dependency-regex
  ;; Allow for two nested levels $(v1:$(v2:$(v3:a=b)=c)=d)
  "^\\(\\(?:\\$\\(?:[({]\\(?:\\$\\(?:[({]\\(?:\\$\\(?:[^({]\\|.[^\n$#})]+?[})]\\)\\|[^\n$#)}]\\)+?[})]\\|[^({]\\)\\|[^\n$#)}]\\)+?[})]\\|[^({]\\)\\|[^\n$#:=]\\)+?\\)\\(:\\)\\(?:[ \t]*$\\|[^=\n]\\(?:[^#\n]*?;[ \t]*\\(.+\\)\\)?\\)"
  "Regex used to find dependency lines in a makefile.")

Of which I can only say...  "eek".

I wonder -- has anybody considered rewriting make-mode.el using
syntax-ppss?  Or is the syntax just too intractable for that?

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