On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:07, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > > But emacs isn't perfect either... > > I use xemacs. The highlighting is too easy to miss. I'm considering > writing a function to automatically provide the closing brace, > bracket, paren, etc as soon as I give it the first character. Then > there's no way to have an unbalanced situation unless you step on a > character. kwrite does that and I got used to it. When you've written it I'd be grateful if you shared it :) > > In the example I cited, I tried having xemacs help me locate the > problem, but it got confused. I've noticed that xemacs will sometimes > mess up if comments contain ' or ". It won't properly color code real > code because it believes its inside a quoted string when its not. Thats exactly what I mean when I say it isn't perfect. It gets even worse with perl, because the comment character # can also be used not as a comment (eg m#...#) which emacs doesn't like. Oh well! -- Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
