From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T14:21:19+09:00
Subject: Re: SciTE/VIM Syntax highlighting

Jim Bartlett (jimbart@magma.ca) wrote:
>  I am learning Ruby via "Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide".
>  In one example, a regex is made with an apostrophe as part of the pattern.
>  
>  aPhrase.scan /\w[-\w']+/

Use one of the following alternatives:

	aPhrase.scan %r/\w[-\w']+/
	aPhrase.scan(/\w[-\w']+/)

Either of them should make syntax highlighting work with Vim (don't
know about SciTE). The general problem is that it is non-trivial to
distinguish between / as the first character of a regular expression
and / as the division operator simply from local context. Therefore, a
heuristic is needed. And obviously, any heuristic will sometimes be
wrong.

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			Reimer Behrends