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23.1; String literal parse problem in ruby-mode

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Message #23 received at 5757 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
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: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:16:38 -0300

>> 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.

I think it's more important to keep in touch with the upstream
maintainers.  E.g. I still haven't heard anything from them regarding
the changes I've made for syntax-propertize (which happen to fix the
OP's problem).  I'm worried we might not stay in sync.


        Stefan

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