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Re: Make Heredocs a first class citizen
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Make Heredocs a first class citizen |
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Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:57:19 -0500 |
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> It got me thinking that it would be nice is emacs could provide syntax
> highlighting for heredocs in the same way it does for multi-line string and
> multi line comments as syntactic constructs.
In the abstract I agree, but I'm not sure how easy it is and how much
can really be shared. I think every language has slightly different
rules about how (and where) a heredoc starts, so I suspect it'll be hard
to share that part. And the "match the end" part is the easy part
anyway, so there's a risk that sharing it may not bring very
much benefit.
Stefan