mcedit highlighting stumbles upon multiple nested quotes

[zaytsev]

Forwarded from Debian: ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577929

From: Dmitry Baryshev <ksquirrel.iv@gmail.com>
Subject: mcedit colorer problem
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:38:59 +0300

If I type the following string in a shell script:

valid=$(echo "$device" | awk '{ match($0, /^\/dev\/sd[a-z][0-9]$/); print
RSTART }')

mcedit will color all the following text as a character string (screenshot
is attached)

-- 
Regards, Krasu

[angel_il]

curtis: Currently, nobody working on the engine syntax :( this mean what this ticket will be not closet long-long time...

[muzzol]

Replying to angel_il:

curtis: Currently, nobody working on the engine syntax :( this mean what this ticket will be not closet long-long time...

not sure if this has been discussed before, but why not include colorer take5 to make syntax work?

is there any problem providing it with MC?

i know lot of people is compiling it by themselves so is just a matter of polishing makefile.

[andrew_b]

Replying to muzzol:

not sure if this has been discussed before, but why not include colorer take5 to make syntax work?

First of all, colorer-take5 is written in C++...
Then, the any extra library is not nice in embedded system.

[andrew_b]

Ticket #3129 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[asy]

another example

[asy]

A work around for code:

LINES=($(egrep -v "^(#|[[:space:]])|^$" $HOME/file))

#" <- work arround

for LINE in "${LINES[@]}"; do
    echo "--" $LINE "--"
done

[andrew_b]

Ticket #3213 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[andrew_b]

Ticket #3377 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[teresaejunior]

This bug is truly annoying! Almost any shell script with some regex foo gets broken in mcedit, maybe fixing #2931 would be the best long term decision for fixing this!

[andrew_b]

Ticket #3881 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[andrew_b]

Ticket #4048 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.