From: Heikki Junes <heikki.junes@hut.fi>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:17:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add a comment about LilyPond specific escape characters
X-Git-Tag: release/1.7.26~37
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ea12c91a713ce107fc83daddb243a23490916e2;p=lilypond.git

add a comment about LilyPond specific escape characters
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0a628fb956..c3f27b2ef6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-07-16  Heikki Junes  <hjunes@cc.hut.fi>
+
+	* lilypond-font-lock.el: add a comment about LilyPond specific
+	escape characters: ^, - and _, in the syntax table.
+
 2003-07-15  Han-Wen Nienhuys  <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
 
 	* input/test/trills.ly (endHorizScript): fixes.
diff --git a/lilypond-font-lock.el b/lilypond-font-lock.el
index 6e1e6ee91b..b4ab0cf84f 100644
--- a/lilypond-font-lock.el
+++ b/lilypond-font-lock.el
@@ -152,7 +152,10 @@
 	    ( ?\$ . "." ) ( ?\& . "." )
 	    ( ?\* . "." ) ( ?\+ . "." ) ( ?\/ . "." )  ( ?\= . "." )
 	    ( ?\| . "." )      ; bar line
-	    ( ?\- . "." ) ( ?\_ . "." ) ( ?\^ . "." ) ; accent positioners
+	    ;; In LilyPond the following chars serve as escape chars, 
+	    ;; e.g., c^> d-) e_( , but they are set to punctuation chars, 
+	    ;; since inside strings they should not act as escape chars
+	    ( ?\- . "\\" ) ( ?\_ . "." ) ( ?\^ . "." )
 	    ))
   )