incorrect syntax highlighting when using the regex pattern reader macro in Clojure file.

[martinodb]

Hello,
I'm having problems using Geany in Clojure files with regular expression, using the #"pattern" reader macro. Sometimes the closing double quote is interpreted as an opening quote and whatever comes after, as a string. I think it happens when I need to use the parens to capture a group in the pattern. My Geany version is 1.27, my system is Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Here's a screen capture of a simple example to illustrate the problem (this code works, the output of lein run is Hello,):

[codebrainz]

Presumably it's treating #" as a function abbreviation just like it would #', even though the former is undefined in Common Lisp. I don't think it knows anything about Clojure specifically.

[elextr]

Its simply that the Clojure filetype is built on the Lisp filetype, and uses the Lisp highlighting lexer. But #" is undefined in Common Lisp so it skips the opening " and starts a string at the closing ".

Highlighting is done by the Scintilla editing widget we use, which is a separate project so you should report it there and maybe it can be added since #" is undefined in Lisp.

[elextr]

@martinodb did you report it to scintilla, maybe post a link to the scintilla issue.

[martinodb]

Well, here it is, better late than never, I guess ;)

https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/2075/