Bug #4242: ruby-mode for emacs syntax highlighting breaks on regular expressions

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18) [i386-mingw32]

[amasal (Nguma Abojo)]

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I'm not sure what category this one goes to so I apologise if I picked the wrong one.

I believe the syntax highlighting in the ruby-mode for emacs in /misc/ruby-mode.rl is broken for certain regular expressions. The RE will then be interpreted as non-RE Ruby code and the string quote counting gets all confused, too. Just fire up the test file I attached in emacs with ruby-mode and it should be fairly obvious.

emacs versions tested:
GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)
GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)

ruby-mode versions tested:
Head from svn rep, rev 30480 as I am writing this.
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

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This issue was solved with changeset r30484.
Nguma, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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