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Re: identifiing strings and comments in program source files (to skip th
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: identifiing strings and comments in program source files (to skip them over) |
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Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:53:01 +0200 |
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Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:
> What do you think: can a robust solution be built using this approach?
yes, if you now how (and how much) to wait for font lock to do its job:
if the scanning you have in mind occurs before font lock is done, it may
give incorrect results. this can be difficult to debug because by the
time you notice the incorrect results, font lock may have finished.
thi