Hello list, Paul, I've been looking at this problem a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't come up with a solution (yet). Sadly the syntax code is not very well documented, so although I somewhat understand what happens I can't put my finger on the exact location of the problem. It appears the code still looks for a possible context switch right after one has happened, which it shouldn't.
Try the following example (I noticed this oddity while hacking phpMyAdmin): $ cat /usr/share/mc/syntax/php.syntax context default keyword whole echo brightmagenta keyword " green keyword ' brightgreen context exclusive " " green keyword \\" brightgreen keyword \\' yellow keyword ' brightred context exclusive ' ' brightgreen keyword \\' brightgreen keyword \\" brightred keyword " brightcyan $ cat test.php <?php echo '"'; echo "'"; ?> See the double context switch which doesn't happen when an extra character is added to the strings: $ cat test.php <?php echo '" '; echo " '"; ?> I verified that this issue also exists in the latest version of CoolEdit (as for a few weeks). By the way Paul, I'm not sure how active you are currently developing CoolEdit, but if so you should have a look at the midnight commander. F.e. we introduced a memory fix to allow much larger context files. The proposed solution in Savannah bugzilla was buggy but Jakub Jelinek fixed the logic and we can now handle syntax files of in indefinite size. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel