version bump; underscore escaping fix for backticks; horrible workaround for deficiencies of C lexer

ldoc.lua

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ app.require_here()
 
 --- @usage
 local usage = [[
-ldoc, a documentation generator for Lua, vs 1.4.2
+ldoc, a documentation generator for Lua, vs 1.4.3
   -d,--dir (default doc) output directory
   -o,--output  (default 'index') output name
   -v,--verbose          verbose

ldoc/lang.lua

@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ function CC.lexer(f)
    local err
    f,err = utils.readfile(f)
    if not f then quit(err) end
-   return lexer.cpp(f,{})
+   return lexer.cpp(f,{},nil,true)
 end
 
 function CC:grab_block_comment(v,tok)

ldoc/lexer.lua

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ local STRING2 = [[^".-[^\\]"]]
 local STRING3 = "^((['\"])%2)" -- empty string
 local PREPRO = '^#.-[^\\]\n'
 
-local plain_matches,lua_matches,cpp_matches,lua_keyword,cpp_keyword
+local plain_matches,lua_matches,cpp_matches,cpp_matches_no_string,lua_keyword,cpp_keyword
 
 local function tdump(tok)
     return tok,tok
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ end
 -- @param filter a table of token types to exclude, by default {space=true,comments=true}
 -- @param options a table of options; by default, {number=true,string=true},
 -- which means convert numbers and strip string quotes.
-function lexer.cpp(s,filter,options)
+function lexer.cpp(s,filter,options,no_string)
     filter = filter or {comments=true}
     if not cpp_keyword then
         cpp_keyword = {
@@ -350,9 +350,9 @@ function lexer.cpp(s,filter,options)
             {IDEN,cpp_vdump},
             {NUMBER4,ndump},
             {NUMBER5,ndump},
-          --  {STRING3,sdump},
-          --  {STRING1,chdump},
-          --  {STRING2,sdump},
+            {STRING3,sdump},
+            {STRING1,chdump},
+            {STRING2,sdump},
             {'^//.-\n',cdump},
             {'^/%*.-%*/',cdump},
             {'^==',tdump},
@@ -375,7 +375,39 @@ function lexer.cpp(s,filter,options)
             {'^.',tdump}
         }
     end
-    return lexer.scan(s,cpp_matches,filter,options)
+    if not cpp_matches_no_string then
+        cpp_matches_no_string = {
+            {WSPACE,wsdump},
+            {PREPRO,pdump},
+            {NUMBER3,ndump},
+            {IDEN,cpp_vdump},
+            {NUMBER4,ndump},
+            {NUMBER5,ndump},
+            {'^//.-\n',cdump},
+            {'^/%*.-%*/',cdump},
+            {'^==',tdump},
+            {'^!=',tdump},
+            {'^<=',tdump},
+            {'^>=',tdump},
+            {'^->',tdump},
+            {'^&&',tdump},
+            {'^||',tdump},
+            {'^%+%+',tdump},
+            {'^%-%-',tdump},
+            {'^%+=',tdump},
+            {'^%-=',tdump},
+            {'^%*=',tdump},
+            {'^/=',tdump},
+            {'^|=',tdump},
+            {'^%^=',tdump},
+            {'^::',tdump},
+            {'^%.%.%.',tdump},
+            {'^.',tdump}
+        }
+    end
+    return lexer.scan(s,
+      not no_string and cpp_matches or cpp_matches_no_string,
+      filter,options)
 end
 
 --- get a list of parameters separated by a delimiter from a stream.

ldoc/markup.lua

@@ -54,13 +54,14 @@ local function resolve_inline_references (ldoc, txt, item, plain)
    if backtick_references then
       res  = res:gsub('`([^`]+)`',function(name)
          local ref,err = markup.process_reference(name)
-         if ref then
+         local label = name
          if name and do_escape then
-               name = name:gsub('_', '\\_')
+            label = name:gsub('_', '\\_')
          end
-            return ('<a href="%s">%s</a>'):format(ldoc.href(ref),name)
+         if ref then
+            return ('<a href="%s">%s</a>'):format(ldoc.href(ref),label)
          else
-            return '<code>'..name..'</code>'
+            return '<code>'..label..'</code>'
          end
       end)
    end