On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:47:02PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > where regex will have more problems than other principles, namely nested > > constructs. > > Nested if statements, nested procedures, nested comments (the correct > style) all work fine with most regex highlighters, so I really don't > see your issue. But enough said, we could go on forever like this, > but I have better things to do right now. > > BTW: > I tried all the examples listed on this page (which FPC doesn't > support in most cases), and jEdit formatted then without problems - > perfectly, just like the website shows. Yes, nested types, nested > classes etc.. Lazarus and MSEide did too by the way [just to be fair]. > :-) > > http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/34324
Note the nesting is about matching nesting _structures_ with highlighting. Not highlighting keywords in nested structures them. That's why the primary example was comments, not if..then because for comments it matters how the result is highlighted. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
