Hi,

* Jörg Fischer wrote (2008-01-07 21:32):
> 2) For 5.4 background coloring was made available for syntax
>    highlighting.  This coloring stops at \n. Then Tony found out how
>    to make the coloring go beyond \n and asked for comments (ie,
>    include into 5.4 or not).  Unfortunately, back then the change was
>    misunderstood as an either-or decision (either stop at \n or go
>    beyond \n always), which is wrong, because now we have "always
>    stop at \n", and with the change we would have both possibilities
>    "go beyond \n" and "stop at \n" (achieved with a subpattern
>    catching the \ns).  
>    If anyone had been aware of this back then, this change had surely
>    gone into 5.4. Therefore, I wonder if the unfortunate omission
>    shouldn't be corrected eventually:

You could make the point that the variant which seems to be more
popular is a bit more obscure. All in all, I'd prefer to have the
option though. I also wouldn't mind this going into 5.6.


>    [four lines to be changed in textDisp.c:2184]

Could you provide a patch?


Thorsten
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