Re: [ jEdit-users ] modification to php and perl modes

[Kevin H. <hu...@ea...>]

On 07 Mar 2007 at 9:04a -0500, Robert Hicks wrote:
> Chris Petersen wrote:
>> I don't know how well this would be accepted by the perl/PHP users in
>> the community, but I actually like to differentiate between
>> "interpreted" and "non interpreted" strings in my code (double vs single
>> quotes).
>>
>> jEdit has differentiations between three different types of "literals"
>> so why don't we use these?  There seems to be a great deal of
>> incongruity between the two language definition files (granted, they're
>> the two that I use the most so they're the ones I notice).  If I were to
>> clean these up to standardize stuff like "" '' `` heredoc, etc. between
>> languages (I'd probably do shellscript, too), would a patch be accepted?

I can't speak to that as I'm no maintainer/contributor (ATM), but I, 
too, work with PHP and Perl on a regular basis and would appreciate this.

>> It would be really nice if all of the various string indication chars
>> matched up between languages.
> 
> I like the idea of "interpreted" vs "non" are you going to do that for 
> all of them? For example 'END_SQL' doesn't interpolate while "END_SQL" 
> does. You would also have to look at q vs qq and all that mess. : )

It could be a work in progress.  One step at at time, right?  That's how 
OpenSource works! :)  When it "bugs" you, you fix it, eh?

Cheers,

Kevin