Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] syntax: perl: don't color the character after a variable name

[Brand Huntsman]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 20:11:43 +0200
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> The $/ gets highlighted as if it were a variable.  :|
> The $\ gets colored as if were a variable.

Those are probably mostly only set, and dropping them would improve 
readability. The following would highlight them when set.

color cyan "(^|[[:space:]])\$[\\/]"


> Or... we could, as vim, color "find" (/.+/) and
> "substitution" (s(.).*\1.*\1) expressions after coloring variable
> names.  But that will probably cause new problems.

Substitution and match are already handled, but I agree that highlighting // 
without a prefix would cause issues.