RE: temp stop syntax coloring on region of mismatched quotes

[Drew Adams]

> sometimes in some source code, the double quote doesn't match and
> makes the rest of the code from that point on syntax colored wrong.
> Very annoying.
> 
> Is there anyway to make it not syntax color the region of text where
> the quote becomes odd? For example, i have this text in the middle
> of a html file:
> 
> <pre class="code">
> &lt;img src="\([^"]+\)" alt="math surface" width="\([0-9]+\)" 
> height="\
> ([0-9]+\)"&gt;
> </pre>
> 
> and from this poitn on all syntax coloring gets wrong.
> My usual workaround is to add a html comment
> <!-- " -->
> right after the line, but that's kinda a pain. I wish to temporarily
> tell emacs to not do syntax coloring on the problematic region. Is
> there a way?

Temporarily? Yes: just insert another `"' character. Seriously. Remove it later,
or leave it in, in a comment, as you suggested. Typing `"' is the quickest way I
know of to handle this temporarily.

More than temporarily - e.g. for code that needs to have an unpaired `"' char:
no, not that I know of (except for adding a comment, if the code is not
read-only).

I agree about the annoyance, but this is likely to be a hard nut to crack in a
satisfactory and general way.

I highlight "..." (and `...') in Info, for instance, and the odd `"' throws off
highlighting for the rest of the current Info node (or until another odd `"').
Fortunately, this occurs rarely in Info, but it is annoying when it happens.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoPlus