Re: font-lock-syntactic-keywords obsolet?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/20/2016 01:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> The code for raw strings is actually very new - it was only committed a
> week and a half ago.  By their very nature, unterminated raw strings are
> a problem, since the terminating delimiter could occur anywhere later in
> the buffer.  The trick has got to be to apply some artificial limit for
> after-change processing until that terminating delimiter is inserted.

So what if you have a literal that's longer than your chosen limit? A 
s-p-f could handle that. Your solution is basically a kludge. You're 
lucky raw strings are rare in C++ now; in many other languages, a normal 
string is not limited to a single line.