Re: address@hidden: sgml-mode.el]

[James Clark]

I haven't worked on sgml-mode.el for years.  It's changed a lot since I
worked on it.  In particular I didn't implement any of the font-lock
support.  It would be better to get one of the people who worked on it more
recently to look at it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Stallman" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:09 AM
Subject: address@hidden: sgml-mode.el]


> [I sent this message a few weeks ago but did not get a response.
> Would you please respond?]
>
> Can you please look at these issues?
>
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> From: Felix Natter <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Subject: sgml-mode.el
> Organization: T-Online
> X-Sender: address@hidden
> Sender: address@hidden
> Date: 09 Feb 2002 17:40:13 +0100
>
> hi,
>
> I tried to contact address@hidden, but it didn't work (although
> www.jclarc.com works). Maybe you should change the "Maintainer" field
> in sgml-mode.el to another address ?
>
> 1. I think there *might* be a bug in line 221 of sgml-mode.el:
>     ("<! *--.*-- *>" . font-lock-comment-face)))
> In the HTML 4 specification (section 3.2.4), it says that there may
> be whitespace between "--" and ">", but not between "<!" and "--".
> Since html is sgml, I conclude that the same is true for sgml
> (sorry, I can't find the SGML spec)
>
>
> 2. sgml-mode.el currently can't highlight multiline-comments.
> This can be fixed by defining a font-lock function ? Would that be
> too slow ?
>
> thanks,
>
> - --
> Felix Natter
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