From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk Date: 2002-10-02T03:27:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby - common pitfalls? Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:37:23 +0900, Rudolf Polzer pisze: > - a %= b versus %=...=. A syntax highlighter gets into big trouble when > seeing this construct. Nothing really seriuos, but I already had to > insert "useless" comments to fix vim's highlighting - which is unable > to correctly highlight if-then-end expressions. Perhaps it would help > to deprecate %=...= as string separator (any other character could be > used with less problems). No need to change Ruby here. The syntax highlighter could always interpret it as the %= operator because it has no nice replacement. You are not forced to use = as the string bracket, it's easy to pick another character. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/