"block.start.filepattern" and "block.end.filepattern" is limited to one character?

[Jingcheng Zhang]

Hello every one,

For C-like languages, these two options are usually set to "{" and "}" on operator style, for example:

block.start.$(file.patterns.php)=127 {
block.end.$(file.patterns.php)=127 }

But it looks that these options can only be set to one character. The "(" and ")" characters in the following settings don't work:

block.start.$(file.patterns.php)=127 {(
block.end.$(file.patterns.php)=127 })

And the following settings don't work either:

block.start.$(file.patterns.php)=127 { (
block.end.$(file.patterns.php)=127 } )

SciTE documentation says: "Each of these settings starts with a style number and then a set of words or characters that define how to recognise that feature. If there is a second space in the setting then it is a set of words, otherwise a set of characters.", so, is this a bug?

Thanks,

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Best regards,
Jingcheng Zhang
Beijing, P.R.China

[Neil Hodgson]

Jingcheng Zhang:

> But it looks that these options can only be set to one character. The "("
> and ")" characters in the following settings don't work:

Yes, these settings currently only look at the first character.
There's a comment n the code that you can find to work on this:
// Set of individual characters. Only one character allowed for now

Neil