Re: Trouble fontifying /** ... */

[Davin Pearson]

2009/1/27 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:
> "/*****..... " (minimum 2 stars) might look a bit like:
> "/\\*\\*+"
>

The following Elisp code only matches a single line comment

     ("/\\*\\*+.*\\*/" 0 'font-lock-doc-face t)

and erroneously fontifies

       a = "/** foo */";

in font-lock-doc-face when it should be font-lock-string-face.

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