Pascal Syntax Highlighting fault

Well,

I found a fix right now. It is a sledge hammer method and for sure not in the
manner of uptodate software, but it works...

Itried first an upgrade to joe 4.6. Exactly the same problem. So this is
definitely combined with version 4.x (in general?).

I then threw out the entire joe (uninstalled it completely) and installed
versio 3.7 RPM from openSuSE Leap 42.3 (I extracted it from its ISO).
Works perfectly as it should.
So I locked now updates to joe, it is now frozen in this version.

But I will install Leap 15.0 also in a VM on my Leap15.0 host, to do tests.
Then I will (again) test joe and can also play around with it without
influencing my production system.

Am Montag, 13. Mai 2019, 18:37:55 CEST schrieben Sie:

Try changing reset to idle in the following, found in pascal.jsf
(probably in /usr/share/joe/syntax):

```

:line_comment Comment

• line_comment
  "\n" reset
  ```

If this doesn't work, can you send a screenshot or provide an example? I
found this issue in the highlighter but it's not specific to double-quotes,
and I can't reproduce this.

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** [bugs:#400] Pascal Syntax Highlighting fault**

Status: open
Group: v4.4
Created: Mon May 13, 2019 02:03 PM UTC by Rainer Hantsch
Last Updated: Mon May 13, 2019 02:03 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hello.
I installed right now openSUSE Leap 15.0 with KDE/Plasma desktop. The
default version of joe on this system is 4.4. I really love joe, I use it
since at least 10 years to write my FreePascal source. What I figured out
is:
On Leap 42.3 is an older 3.7 version of joe installed. Everything in Pascal
syntax highlighting is mostly OK. On joe 4.4, Pascal syntax highlighting is
not working correctly. Here a Double Quote triggers a syntax highlighting
even when the " is located inside a Single line comment //.

This is very nasty. Can I fix this by myself, or is this a bug?

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I think the issue is that >3.8, this is recognized as a puppet file, which shares the extension .pp. You should remove this entry from your /etc/joe/ftyperc. Clearly, it is taking precedence over the entry that you added. It's probably worth adding a warning if we see duplicate extensions.