Error in syntax highlighting over multiple lines in java.

[larstvei]

In the second code-block you can see that multiple lines of comments are interpreted as a single line comment.

[espenak]

I have tried to find the root cause of this issue. I think this is due to syntax errors other places than in the comment. For example, this is highlighted correctly by the Java, C and C++ highligters:

/** This
is a
test */


/*
Hello
world
*/

I do not think we can assume that the Pygments library should be able to correctly highlight code with syntax errors.

[henrist]

From what I can see the error is in the first line, before the comment. The starting curl for the else if is in string-color, so it seems like the escape for ' (the \' part) failed, so it think the string starts there. On the next ' in the first line of comment, the string stops, therefor the comment never really started.

[espenak]

I just tested the following example:

if(x == '\'') {
    /* It's happening
    Hello world
    */
}

in the Try it out box at the bottom of the pygments website, and it works fine. I would appriciate help with finding the root cause of this issue. I guess we just have to try until we find out what causes the error. At that point we can open a ticket with pygments and see if they can help us out.

[torgeirl]

I believe this issue got handled in the UI overhaul included in Devilry 3.x (released January 2018), and if not we're currently in the process of replacing the editor included in Devilry 3.x (#1217) with the intention of also improving both code and math block notation.