id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 16 savannah: c is _not_ c++ slavazanko "Original: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?13144 ||Submitted by:||Oswald Buddenhagen ||Submitted on:||Sat 21 May 2005 06:55:47 PM UTC|| ||Category:||Editor||Severity:||3 - Normal|| ||Status:||None Privacy:||Public|| ||Assigned to:||None||Open/Closed:||Open|| ||Release:||current (CVS or snapshot)||Operating System:||All|| Discussion: {{{ Sun 06 Jul 2008 04:14:54 PM UTC, comment #1: So use .hpp for C++ header files ;-) Jan Engelhardt Sat 21 May 2005 06:55:47 PM UTC, original submission: highlighting c++ keywords like ""class"", ""new"", etc. in plain c files is outright wrong and consequently annoying. the only problem are .h files, as their language is not obvious from the extension. i think the presence of class definitions is a sufficient criterion for c++, but recognizing them reliably requires a minimal parser - even regexps won't do ... ps: don't tell me i shouldn't be using c++ keywords in c headers, because the header might be included in c++ files later - this is my business. }}} " defect new trivial mcedit