GNU bug report logs - #5757
23.1; String literal parse problem in ruby-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rhett Sutphin <r-sutphin <at> northwestern.edu>

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 5757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Pål de Vibe <pauldevibe <at> yahoo.no>,
	Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu <at> ruby-lang.org>, 5757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5757: String literal parse problem in ruby-mode
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:34:10 -0400

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> His proposed fix is not correct: in ruby (like in Elisp) ?<char> is used
> for chars (including ?' and ?") and $' and $" are also special vars, so
> his fix just disables the special treatment of ?.
> For Emacs-24, we use a different chunk of code which doesn't suffer from
> this problem (mostly calling syntax-ppss to determine if we're inside
> a string).

Is this worth backporting to Emacs 23?  If not, let's close this bug.
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