Perl syntax highlight does not understand $package::var syntax

[jernst]

In Perl, I define a module M.pm with a shared variable $foo:

package M;
our $foo = 'something';
1;

which I then can use, with a full path, in some other file f.pl:

use M;
print "The value is $M::foo\n";
1;

In the print line, Geany syntax-highlights $M but it is supposed to highlight $M::foo as that is the name of the symbol.

[elextr]

Confirmed, note that the $M is highlighted because it is syntax not because the name is known, you can remove the use M and it still highlights.

I don't know Perl much, and its possible that $M::anything is the appropriate syntax to highlight, but it won't depend on the package contents. The syntax highlighting is supplied by the Scintilla lexer Geany uses, which is a separate project here. You may wish to post a feature request there since you can then discuss it with the Perl lexer maintainer directly.

[jernst]

Yes, the symbol -- resolved or not -- goes through $M::anything.

Filed over there: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/1980/

[lpaulsen93]

I created a merge request in Scintilla to fix this, see https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/merge-requests/23.