;; <file*glob>
(defvar perl-font-lock-syntactic-keywords
;; TODO: here-documents ("<<\\(\\sw\\|['\"]\\)")
- '(;; Turn POD into b-style comments
+ `(;; Turn POD into b-style comments
("^\\(=\\)\\sw" (1 "< b"))
("^=cut[ \t]*\\(\n\\)" (1 "> b"))
;; Catch ${ so that ${var} doesn't screw up indentation.
;; Be careful not to match "sub { (...) ... }".
("\\<sub\\(?:[[:space:]]+[^{}[:punct:][:space:]]+\\)?[[:space:]]*(\\([^)]+\\))"
1 '(1))
- ;; Regexp and funny quotes.
- ("\\(?:[?:.,;=!~({[]\\|\\(^\\)\\)[ \t\n]*\\(/\\)"
+ ;; Regexp and funny quotes. Distinguishing a / that starts a regexp
+ ;; match from the division operator is ...interesting.
+ ;; Basically, / is a regexp match if it's preceded by an infix operator
+ ;; (or some similar separator), or by one of the special keywords
+ ;; corresponding to builtin functions that can take their first arg
+ ;; without parentheses. Of course, that presume we're looking at the
+ ;; *opening* slash. We can mis-match the closing ones, because they are
+ ;; treated separately later in
+ ;; perl-font-lock-special-syntactic-constructs.
+ (,(concat "\\(?:\\(?:\\(?:^\\|[^$@&%[:word:]]\\)"
+ (regexp-opt '("split" "if" "unless" "until" "while" "split"
+ "grep" "map" "not" "or" "and"))
+ "\\)\\|[?:.,;=!~({[]\\|\\(^\\)\\)[ \t\n]*\\(/\\)")
(2 (if (and (match-end 1)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (match-end 1))
- (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
+ ;; Not 100% correct since we haven't finished setting up
+ ;; the syntax-table before point, but better than nothing.
+ (forward-comment (- (point-max)))
+ (put-text-property (point) (match-end 2)
+ 'jit-lock-multiline t)
(not (memq (char-before)
'(?? ?: ?. ?, ?\; ?= ?! ?~ ?\( ?\[)))))
nil ;; A division sign instead of a regexp-match.