#807459 gedit: perl syntax highliting fails on s%a%b%

Package:
gedit
Source:
gedit
Description:
popular text editor for the GNOME desktop environment
Submitter:
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Date:
2015-12-09 03:48:05 UTC
Severity:
minor
#807459#5
Date:
2015-12-09 03:37:16 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

perl syntax hightling fails if it hits an expression of the form s%a%b%

(a regex-substitute command with % as the delimiter)

a work-around is to add a comment like #%# after the failing line.