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23.2.91; js-mode font lock problem with comments

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Evan Owens <eaowens <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:03:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 23.2.91

Done: Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg <at> gmail.com>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7921 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Evan Owens <eaowens <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#7921: 23.2.91; js-mode font lock problem with comments
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:22:52 -0500

>>> path=/";/ # Everything following and including the last / is string face
>>> path="; # Everything is fine
>>> path=//"; # Everything is fine
>> 
>> I've put the above three lines in ~/tmp/foo.js and opened it with
>> Debian's emacs23 and I don't think I see the problems you describe in
>> the comments.  OTOH I see other problems of highlighting but they're
>> largely due to the code itself being meaningless, AFAIK (# is not
>> a comment marker in javascript, is it?).
>> 

> I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. The # signs are
> meta-comments, please leave them out when trying to reproduce the
> problem.

In my tests, the ";\npath=//" is treated as a string.  This sounds right
to me, but not being a js-programmer, your example makes me doubt.
IOW, using the latest code in the emacs-23, are there still some issues
with js-mode's font-locking?


        Stefan
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