Re: Syntax file for M4/Autoconf

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:

> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > 
> > The question about comments may be for me.  I remember that I just scanned
> > the web for SQL files and checked sources of PostgreSQL and MySQL.  
> > PostgreSQL uses "--".  MySQL uses "#".  Take MySQL source and look for
> > *.test files.
> > 
> It's very bad - # has not special sence and can be used in keywords in 
> Oracle. Only --, rem[ark] and /* */ are legal comments there.

You mean names of columns and tables?  MySQL doesn't allow it.

How about this?

=================================
--- sql.syntax
+++ sql.syntax
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@
     keyword , brightcyan/14
     keyword ; brightcyan/14
 
-context # \n brown/22
+context linestart # \n brown/22
     spellcheck
 
 context exclusive -- \n brown/22
=================================

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin