Re: Problem with syntax/html.vim

Gary,

On Friday, May 17, 2013 8:32:36 AM UTC+2, Gary Johnson wrote:
> The highlighting is correct through the '--', but they incorrectly
> terminate the comment region. The following '"/' are highlighted as
> an error, as are '[endif]', and the </head> and </html> tags are
> highlighted as comments.
>
> The problem seems to be this line in $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/html.vim
> (dated 2012 Oct 05),
>
> syn region htmlCommentPart contained start=+--+ end=+--\s*+ contains=@htmlPreProc,@Spell
>
> which doesn't account for the possibility of '--' being anywhere
> within a string.
>
> I don't know enough about syntax highlighting to know how to fix it,
> though, and I would rather help the author with a solution than just
> point out the problem, so I thought I'd ask here if anyone knew of a
> solution. (I have Bcc'd the author.)

Double dash isn't allowed in XML comments. I think the highlighting is
correct as it is.

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