2010/5/1 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>:
>
> Incidentally, I already happened to have one of those in my patch series
> where the consequences were all too bad.
>
> Here goes: flex/bison files need, for lack of better alternatives, to be
> edited in c++-mode in Emacs.
>
> Unmatched double quotes throw all syntactic entities off terribly. So
> I'd tend to just double those quotes where they occur in a pattern like
>
> [^\\""] { ...
>
> since duplication in a character set is harmless. An uglier alternative
> would be
>
> [^\\"] // "
> { ...
>
> Is the former ok with people? It does no harm, and is not likely to get
> confused with anything. And it makes handling those files in c++-mode
> smoother in Emacs and likely in other editors as well.
I can only say that this trick is already being used in Documentation.
--
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