Re: [Help-source-highlight] Backreferences in source-highlight 2.7

[Lorenzo Bettini]

gnombat wrote:
> I'm having trouble with backreferences in source-highlight 2.7.  If I
> create a language definition file named foo.lang:
> 
> keyword = `a(.)\1`
> 
> And then I create a test file example.foo:
> 
> aaa abb acc a** a@@
> 
> And then I run source-highlight:
> 
> source-highlight --lang-def=foo.lang example.foo
> 
> Then "aaa", "abb" and "acc" are highlighted, but "a**" and "a@@" are
> not.  Shouldn't the dot match any character?

yes you're right, so this must be a bug...

I'll try to work on it tomorrow

thanks for the feedback!
cheers
        Lorenzo

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