Re: [Nano-devel] ruby pats

[John M. Gabriele]

--- David Lawrence Ramsey <address@hidden> wrote:
> John M. Gabriele wrote:
>  > Just noticed that the end part of camelCaseNames were accidentally
>  > getting highlighted as Constants. So, I changed the Constants pattern
>  > as follows:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>  >> color brightblue "\<(\$|@|@@)?[A-Z]+[0-9A-Z_a-z]*"
>  >
>  > and it seems to be ok, except now, for Constants that start with $, @,
>  > or @@, those little symbols are (incorrectly) no longer getting
>  > highlighted as part of the constant... not great, but possibly better
>  > than before.
>  >
>  > It seems like the symbols ($, @, @@) should be getting colored using
>  > that regex. Why aren't they?
> 
> After some experimenting, this appears to work properly (please let me
> know if it doesn't; I'll add it to CVS if it does):
> 
> color brightblue "(\$|@|@@)?\<[A-Z]+[0-9A-Z_a-z]*"
> 
> My best guess as to why is that "\<" marks the beginning of a word, and
> punctuation isn't treated as part of the word, so the "\<" has to be
> after the punctuation.

Gah. I see -- should've tried that. Works great. Thanks David. :)

---John


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