some advice about mc

Tue Nov 16 16:18:11 UTC 2004

MozGG wrote:
> Please add support for highlighting such PHP syntax as
> ==========
> <?php
> 
> 	echo
> <<<HTML
> 	<!-- Here the HTML-code comes -->
> HTML;
> 
> ?>
> ==========
> because if I use this, mc sees the "<HTML" tag and the following text is all in blue :-(
> 
> Thanks a lot!

This will take some (real) time and much (development) time, as the 
current syntax highlighter is kind of ... primitive. It knows about 
keywords and contexts, but it cannot nest two contexts (Here-document 
inside PHP), as you suggest here.

Sorry for now.

Roland