[Newbies] loading Shout into trunk?

Edwin Castro edwin.gabriel.castro at lifetime.oregonstate.edu
Thu Dec 9 00:18:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:

> At 12:07 AM +0100 12/9/10, Levente Uzonyi apparently wrote:
> >On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Ken G. Brown wrote:
> >
> >>Thx.
> >>I'm wondering if there might be some way for the syntax highlighting to
> be made to reset itself instead of giving up completely after a syntax error
> and everything after that doesn't work at all?
> >>eg. the quote character? The double quote character should either be the
> beginning or end of a comment.
> >>
> >>I suppose it's more complicated than that.
> >
> >It's more complicated. But why don't you put your text into a comment?
> Actually that's what comments are for in the language.
>
> Correct, however...
> I'm thinking of the case where I have a bunch of snippets in a Workspace,
> some of which would not work as pasted and therefore cause a syntax error
> but I still want to leave them as code and maybe later fix the syntax, or
> use the coloring to see where the syntax error might be occurring in the
> snippet.
> The first syntax error seems to mess syntax highlighting up forever more
> after the first error i the Workspace. I would like stuff that is actually
> commented out farther on to to keep showing as comments, even tho there is a
> syntax error in some code above on the page.
>
> Or the case where there was that invisible char as first char on the page
> and the commented section immediately after did not show as a comment color.
> It seems to me that the syntax checker could reset at the next double quote
> after a syntax error since that must be the start of an actual comment
> because there would never be an actual syntax error inside a quoted
> section... Yes?
>
>
What if the syntax error is a missing double quote? The next double quote
would indicate the end of the real comment thus causing more syntax errors.
I think perhaps you should keep broken code or general text in comments so
you can keep the rest of the syntax coloring.

-- 
Edwin G. Castro
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