[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-3473165 ] Java mode syntax highlighting breaks on string escaping

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Bugs item #3473165, was opened at 2012-01-12 16:16
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Category: text area and syntax packages
Group: severe bug
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Damien (kog13)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Java mode syntax highlighting breaks on string escaping

Initial Comment:
When editing a java file, a double-quote string is supposed to highlight up to a non-escaped quote, but currently it treats all backslashes as escaping the quote. For example, in the line

if (lastArg.startsWith("\\")) {

the second backslash is the escaped character, but it's treated as escaping the quote, and everything up to the end of the line is highlighted as a string. This looks weird and breaks bracket matching.

Tested with the current jEdit trunk, revision 20767

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>Comment By: Damien (kog13)
Date: 2012-01-13 10:56

Message:
I just committed a fix by adding the line

<SEQ TYPE="LITERAL4">\\</SEQ>

to both the double-quote and simple-quote literal rules in front of their
respective quote-escaping seqs. It seems to fix the problem.

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