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** Description changed: See screenshot. This is a JS file. There are portions of expressions that are incorrectly highlighted in pink as if they were strings. There is no syntax error before or after the captured portion of text. The script is parsed as expected by the javascript interpreter, so the syntax highlight is wrong. - Oh my ******* god, I see what the problem is!! The portion between "/" and "/" are highlighted as if they were regular expressions. But they aren't, nor does the parser of the language interpreter - interpret them as such, nor does the standard say they should, so the - syntax highlighting is wrong. + interpret them as such, so the syntax highlighting is wrong. - - Couldn't GEdit just use the same language definitions that are actually used by true languages (I guess most of them are available as open source), so that you don't have to rewrite definitions to emulate the behavior of language parsers? Gedit is FULL of bugs like these (see how it wrongly parses PHP within HTML, for example), so if it could just take language definitions from true parsers, maybe we would finally get rid of all these syntax highlight annoyances at once. Or is that not feasible? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gedit 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-34.49-generic 3.8.13.12 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-34-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Dec 25 21:16:41 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (75 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gedit UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264152 Title: Syntax highlight: nonsense pink coloring of portions of expressions in JS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1264152/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
