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Subject: Re: Odd quotes, font-lock, [^"]
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>>>>> "KMH" == Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:

    KMH> Is anyone else annoyed when editting perl, when a quote in a regex
    KMH> tricks font-lock, like this:

    KMH> It would be good if the font-lock was aware of [^"] and \" type
    KMH> things.  Wish I knew how to fix it.

Use Python instead of Perl?  :-)

<sorry, it's too late at night to resist>

-B

