lisp syntax highlighting treats ?\" as the start of a string.

[alexflint]

The lisp syntax highlighting incorrectly treats ?\" as the start of a string, where in fact it is a character literal. This results in an inversion of string/non-string regions:

ST3, Build 3103, OSX 10.10

[wbond]

I know effectively nothing about lisp, so I looked into this.

It seems #\ is common lisp and ?\ is emacs lisp? It seems the current syntax supports the former, but not that later. Is that correct?

[alexflint]

@wbond Yes that is correct. I should have mentioned that I'm working with elisp.

[wbond]

Does syntax highlighting of lisp usually take into account both variants, or are there usually enough differences to cause problems?

[alexflint]

I'm actually not sure what other editors do, but there are relatively few syntactic differences between Common lisp / Elisp so it's probably possible to deal with them together. (Most of the differences are at the semantic level.)