Emacs Pike Mode: improvement in handling of @-continued autodoc lines.

Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Apr 2019 16:11:01 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.pike.user
Message-ID <20190420161101.GC4002@ACM>
Hello, Pike.

This is my first post here.  I'm the maintainer of Emacs CC Mode, which
includes Pike Mode.

First of all, a big hello to Martin Stjernholm (my CC Mode predecessor)
if he is still active on Pike!

There was a problem in @-continued autodoc lines, where the first
identifier in the continued line wasn't getting highlighted.  Also,
modifying a continued line splatted the highlighting in that line and
subsequent continued lines.  Also[2], some identifiers were losing their
highlighting at random, on certain buffer changes.

These problems should now be fixed, the fixes being available in the
HEAD revisions of both the Emacs master repository, and the CC Mode
standalone repository.  Emacs-27 will be getting released possibly in
about a year.  I'm hoping to be releasing CC Mode 5.34 sometime in the
next few weeks.

To get the HEAD revision of CC Mode (which is a mercurial repository),
please follow the directions on
http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/hgaccess.php, i.e. do

  $ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/cc-mode/cc-mode TARGET-DIRECTORY

, followed by byte-compiling the files as documented in
TARGET-DIRECTORY/README.

I hope all this is still relevant to somebody.

All the best!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).