Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Indeed.  I've mentioned already a few times that the functionality
>> offered by font-lock-syntactic-keywords should be added to syntax.el
>> (which means make it independent from font-lock) after which
>> font-lock-syntactic-keywords can be made obsolete.

>> Would you like to implement that now?

>     I think it could wait for after Emacs-22.

> If things are working ok now, this should wait for after the release.
> But I thought we were trying to fix a bug.  That is why I suggested
> doing it now.

It's a bug, but it's a corner case (one particular situation in perl-mode)
among many other corner-case bugs (perl-mode's highlighting doesn't do
a 100% job anyway, far from that, thanks to the "interesting" syntactic
features of Perl).  So I don't think it's that important.


        Stefan