Subject: bug#64204: C/C++ local variables not syntax highlighted if they start with $

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:44:29 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks, but shouldn't this be optional behavior, which users should be
> able to control?  Standard C disallows '$' in identifiers AFAIK, and
> some users might wish to follow the Standard.

There is no other use for the character $, so this is not necessary:
it's either an identifier or a syntax error, and we don't try to fontify
syntax errors.