[Geany-Users] Strings spanning lines (syntax, colouring)

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 30/06/2015 19:17, Péter a écrit :
> 
> It would be nice feature to allow strings (for example / at least) in
> C-like files to span multiple lines.
> 
> aaaa'bbbbbbbbbbbb
> bbbbbbbbbbbbb'aaaaaaaa

For which language do you need this and it isn't implemented?

Not accepting strings spanning multiple lines when the language does not
accept them helps for error recovery, e.g. avoiding to color the whole
file as a string when there is a missing quote.  Not only it avoids
distraction while typing, but also improves performances (well, OK, it's
probably not *so* slow).

However, AFAIK languages that actually support this are properly
handled, aren't they?

Anyway, this happens in Scintilla, at scintilla/lexers/LexCPP.cpp (for
C, C++, Java and JavaScript -- and possibly a few others, I'm not certain).

Regards,
Colomban