For future reference, the syntax highlighter used on Google Code is
open source: http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

If you find code that breaks it, you can file a bug (or even a patch
:) ) with that project directly.

- Dave

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 00:25, Richard W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sorry, my mistake. I assumed that code was valid, and although it
> works, it's defined by JSlint as "Bad escapement." So apparently it's
> not valid.
> This issue is entirely unrelated to google code hosting, I'm sorry for
> wasting your time.
> All is good! Thank you for this service.
> Rich
>
> On Dec 2, 11:10 pm, Richard W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi There
>>
>> I've spotted a bug with the syntax highlighter when viewing code in
>> the repository.
>>
>> Now I'm not sure if this bug is actually possible to fix, based on the
>> gnarly level of regular expressions used for syntax highlighting.  I
>> say this only because I use VI (actually vim) as my text editor, and
>> even VI's syntax highlighter breaks with this bit of code.
>>
>> The code in question is perfectly valid Javascript, but it would be
>> really neat if syntax highlighters (including google's syntax
>> highlighter) didn't break on it.
>>
>> The script file is 
>> :http://code.google.com/p/jquery-snakey/source/browse/trunk/js/jquery....
>> You'll notice up to line 203, there is no syntax highlighting, and
>> then there is following line 203.
>>
>> The code that breaks the syntax highlighting is actually at line
>> 92-97, where I'm escaping new line characters.
>> A simpler example would be:
>> var str =
>> 'hello\
>> this is a\
>> string';
>>
>> Please let me know if google would be wiling to fix this bug. It would
>> be nice.
>>
>> Thank you for your time.
>> Best Regards, Rich
> >
>

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