Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Package: dpkg-dev-el > Version: 35.11 > Severity: minor > > debian-control-mode does syntax highlighting for comments in the > debian/control file, which is great. However, the pattern to > detect comments appears not to be anchored at the start of the line. > So, for example, when editing the following: > > Description: Perl implementation of PBKDF2 password hash > PBKDF2 (part of the PKCS#5 standard) is a secure password hashing > > everything including and after the # in PKCS#5 is rendered in comment > face. > > debian/control only permits comments to start at the beginning of a > line, so anchoring the pattern at the start of lines should fix this > issue.
I tried the obvious-to-me fix of anchoring the regex comment-start-skip, but it didn't work (like so many obvious things ;)). If anybody has a better understanding of comments and font-lock, suggestions welcome. d
