PHP Syntax Coloring Fails In Bluefish with Single-Line Comments

[linux4me]

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 and Bluefish 2.2.4. I'm using a clean install of Ubuntu with my old /home directory copied over after installation, including my .bluefish folder. Syntax coloring in PHP files fails whenever a single line comment using // or # precedes a codeblock without an intervening empty line.

In this example, all the code between the PHP tags appears gray:
<?php
// Here is a comment.
$var =
echo "The value is " . $var;
?>

However, if I put an empty line between the comment and the code, the code has the proper syntax highlighting:
<?php
// Here is a comment.

$var =
echo "The value is " . $var;
?>

You can see what I mean in the screenshot to follow.

If I use a # instead of //, the same problem occurs. If I use multi-line comments (/* and */), the syntax coloring is correct. Refreshing the syntax coloring with F5 makes no difference. I also renamed my .bluefish file and restarted Bluefish to see if some old setting was causing the issue, but the problem persisted. Bluefish seems to work fine otherwise, but I really miss my syntax coloring.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: bluefish 2.2.4-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-14.21-generic 3.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 24 08:58:11 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-16 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: bluefish
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nicola Quargentan (nicola-quargentan)]

I confirm this bug also in Ubuntu 13.10 32 bit.

Thanks for the tip of the empy line: that saves my brain!
This little bug will greatly affect the use of bluefish.

Nicola.

[linux4me (ta2008)]

Thanks Nicola! I'm glad it's not just me.

I agree it really affects the use of Bluefish. I end up debugging a lot of other author's code, and the lack of the syntax coloring makes it a real pain.

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

This has already been fixed upstream and will be shortly in the distributions too.

[linux4me (ta2008)]

That's great news Daniel, thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bluefish - 2.2.5-1

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bluefish (2.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fixes a highlighting bug (LP: #1242387, #1263967).
  * debian/control (Standards-Version): Bumped to 3.9.5.
    (Build-Depends): Added dh-autoreconf and some GTK related version info.
  * debian/copyright: Fixed unversioned-copyright-format-uri.
  * debian/rules: Use the autoreconf addon (closes: #737671).
  * debian/upstream-signing-key.pgp: Added upstream keyring.
  * debian/watch: Added signature URL.
  * debian/source/include-binaries: Added debian/upstream-signing-key.pgp.

 -- Daniel Leidert <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:52:23 +0100