Syntax highlighting problem in ruby mode

[William Clifford]

I'm sorry if I should report this elsewhere.

If a backtick expression has '^$ or "^$ in that order, anywhere in the expression, the rest of the text is highlighted like a quote.

Example:

`foo "bar" | grep ^baz$`

If you put the expression in %x() it works fine

%x(foo "bar" | grep ^baz$)

I would like to help fix this, but I don't know my way around the font-locking system (yet). If anyone has any advice about it, please let me know.

Thanks!

[William Clifford]

Post by William Clifford
I'm sorry if I should report this elsewhere.
If a backtick expression has '^$ or "^$ in that order, anywhere in the expression, the rest of the text is highlighted like a quote.
`foo "bar" | grep ^baz$`
If you put the expression in %x() it works fine
%x(foo "bar" | grep ^baz$)
I would like to help fix this, but I don't know my way around the font-locking system (yet). If anyone has any advice about it, please let me know.
Thanks!

Update: it's actually just "$ or '$ that seems to cause the problem.