> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Benji Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Inviato: mercoledì 19 luglio 2006 15.17
> A: vim
> Oggetto: Re: R: matchit doesn't work for php
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:16:44AM +0200, Cesar Romani wrote:
> >
> > Thanks a lot, it works but I also notice that "else if" is not part of
> the
> > matching, although "else if" is a valid expression in php:
> > It matches if, else, elseif
> > but it doesn't match if, else, else if
> > How can I include "else if" in the matching?
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Cesar
>
> First of all, it is not clear to me that everyone would want to
> treat "else if" the same as "elseif". From the PHP manual,
>
> In PHP, you can also write 'else if' (in two words) and the
> behavior would be identical to the one of 'elseif' (in a single
> word). The syntactic meaning is slightly different (if you're
> familiar with C, this is the same behavior) but the bottom line
> is that both would result in exactly the same behavior.
>
> Personally, I would use "elseif" for something like the example given
> there,
>
> if ($a > $b) {
> echo "a is bigger than b";
> } elseif ($a == $b) {
> echo "a is equal to b";
> } else {
> echo "a is smaller than b";
> }
>
> but I might write "else if" for something like
>
> if ($a > $b) {
> echo "a is bigger than b";
> } else if ($a == $b) { # This is the complicated case!
> # Many lines of code
> } else {
> echo "a is smaller than b";
> }
>
> and then I would be annoyed if "else if" were treated the same as
"elseif".
>
> If you still want to treat them the same, then replace 'elseif' in
> the
> matchit patterns with 'else\s*if'. Then test it: you should get
> different
> results depending on whether you start with the cursor on the first or
> second
> word of "else if", and you may like it. If you really want the two cases
> treated identically, then you have to make sure that the second part of
> "else
> if" is not treated as an "if", so replace '\<if' in the matching patterns
> with
> '\%(\<else\s*\)\@<!\<if' (untested). That should do it.
>
> if (help for matchit not yet installed)
> :help matchit-install
>
> :help matchit-spaces
>
> HTH --Benji Fisher
In the following code, "if" from line 2 doesn't match "else" from line 7
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1 <?php
2 if($a > $b)
3 {
4 echo "a is bigger than b";
5 if($a=10) $b=5;
6 }
7 else
8 {
9 echo "a is smaller than b";
10 }
11 ?>
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Many thanks in advance.
Cesar
