Closes #1051: fix misrecognition of throw and return statements as method

signatures in the Java lexer.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pygments/lexers/jvm.py b/pygments/lexers/jvm.py
index 1009ef9f..cc390513 100644
--- a/pygments/lexers/jvm.py
+++ b/pygments/lexers/jvm.py
@@ -41,15 +41,17 @@ class JavaLexer(RegexLexer):
             (r'[^\S\n]+', Text),
             (r'//.*?\n', Comment.Single),
             (r'/\*.*?\*/', Comment.Multiline),
+            # keywords: go before method names to avoid lexing "throw new XYZ"
+            # as a method signature
+            (r'(assert|break|case|catch|continue|default|do|else|finally|for|'
+             r'if|goto|instanceof|new|return|switch|this|throw|try|while)\b',
+             Keyword),
             # method names
             (r'((?:(?:[^\W\d]|\$)[\w\.\[\]\$<>]*\s+)+?)'  # return arguments
              r'((?:[^\W\d]|\$)[\w\$]*)'                   # method name
              r'(\s*)(\()',                                # signature start
              bygroups(using(this), Name.Function, Text, Operator)),
             (r'@[^\W\d][\w\.]*', Name.Decorator),
-            (r'(assert|break|case|catch|continue|default|do|else|finally|for|'
-             r'if|goto|instanceof|new|return|switch|this|throw|try|while)\b',
-             Keyword),
             (r'(abstract|const|enum|extends|final|implements|native|private|'
              r'protected|public|static|strictfp|super|synchronized|throws|'
              r'transient|volatile)\b', Keyword.Declaration),