bug#8576: 23.2; js-mode doesn't support multi-line variable declarations

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Also, the existing highlighting has no ill effects: the
>> second declaration is just interpreted as an assignment, and the worst
>> part is a lack of font-lock-variable-name-face, not syntactic incoherence.
> True, but it's still very irritating to have Emacs indent it incorrectly
> every time you insert/edit such a statement and having to manually fix

Agreed: it's OK for the highlighting to be a bit off, but indentation
is more irritating.  Luckily, we can afford to work harder during
indentation than during highlighting, so it should be fixable.


        Stefan