On 9/9/2006, Graham Nelson said:
The following example may be illustrative. I work on a program written in about 60,000 lines of CWEB, a "|iterate programming" language devised by Knuth in the early 1980s. It's essentially C with more elaborate commentary, signalled by escape characters. Ideally I'd like to specify the language by saying "there are two modes, C and TeX, and this is the marker to switch from one to the other", but that's a lot to ask. At least, though, I'd like to able to say "don't colour paragraphs of text between these markers, since they're comment", but there seems no way to do this. (Remember, one gets only one block comment syntax.)
Actually... strings, comments and functions can all be specified with regular expressions now, in the codeless language modules. So, you can delimit with whatever you want. :-) Isn't this stuff documented yet? ;-) Seth -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
