Syntax highlighting problems for C

[Dasn]

The highlighting of a multi-line comment is broken after #define

" Language: C
" Last Change: 2008 Mar 05

$ cat test.c
#define TEST 4 /* hello
comment */
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Dasn

[Bram Moolenaar]

Dasn wrote:

Works fine for me. Try using ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/syntax/c.vim

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[Vladimir Marek]

Also broken for me. Using

vim -u /dev/null --noplugin -c "syn on" test.c

:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled Mar 17 2008 15:33:40)
Included patches: 1-283

:!head -4 $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/c.vim
" Vim syntax file
" Language: C
" Maintainer: Bram Moolenaar <Br...@vim.org>

" Last Change: 2008 Mar 05

Solaris, self compiled

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Vlad

[Ben Schmidt]

I think the attached patch will fix it. I think it's better to let the change and
code comments speak for themselves than to try to explain it.

Ben.

[Vladimir Marek]

> I think the attached patch will fix it. I think it's better to let the change and
> code comments speak for themselves than to try to explain it.

Indeed it does for me.

Thank you
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[Bram Moolenaar]

Vladimir Marek wrote:

Aha, I didn't see the problem because I have c_comment_strings defined.
Without it I can see the problem. It's easy to fix:

*** c.vim~ Wed Mar 5 12:20:50 2008
--- c.vim Wed Mar 19 21:44:52 2008
***************
*** 149,157 ****
else
syn region cCommentL start="//" skip="\\$" end="$" keepend contains=@cCommentGroup,cSpaceError,@Spell
if exists("c_no_comment_fold")
! syn region cComment matchgroup=cCommentStart start="/\*" end="\*/" contains=@cCommentGroup,cCommentStartError,cSpaceError,@Spell
else
! syn region cComment matchgroup=cCommentStart start="/\*" end="\*/" contains=@cCommentGroup,cCommentStartError,cSpaceError,@Spell fold
endif
endif
" keep a // comment separately, it terminates a preproc. conditional
--- 149,157 ----
else
syn region cCommentL start="//" skip="\\$" end="$" keepend contains=@cCommentGroup,cSpaceError,@Spell
if exists("c_no_comment_fold")
! syn region cComment matchgroup=cCommentStart start="/\*" end="\*/" contains=@cCommentGroup,cCommentStartError,cSpaceError,@Spell extend
else
! syn region cComment matchgroup=cCommentStart start="/\*" end="\*/" contains=@cCommentGroup,cCommentStartError,cSpaceError,@Spell fold extend
endif
endif
" keep a // comment separately, it terminates a preproc. conditional

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