[ python-Bugs-1082487 ] font lock keyword regular expressions

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Bugs item #1082487, was opened at 2004-12-09 16:43
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Robert Brown (robert-brown)
>Assigned to: Skip Montanaro (montanaro)
Summary: font lock keyword regular expressions

Initial Comment:

I've noticed that when I use Python mode (alpha 1) with
font lock mode, "self" is highlighted in the following
line:

    his_self()

The problem appears to be a combination of using "\b" in
the Python font lock regular expressions and my .emacs
file,
which does:

  (modify-syntax-entry ?\_ "_" py-mode-syntax-table)

I do not experience similar problems with highlighting in
C mode, but there "\<" and "\>" are used in the font lock
regular expressions.  Using these word delimiters instead
of "\b" appears to fix the problem for me in Python mode.

Please wrap keywords with "\<" and "\>" instead of with
"\b" in the font lock regular expression.

Thanks very much.

Bob


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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2004-12-10 22:36

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Skip, can you field this one?

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