John Salerno wrote:
Darn, I knew it was too much work!
I am happy that I can add at least one extra group (although I'm
curious what "highlighted identifiers" is *really* supposed to be
referring to), but there is more than one group of words that I'd like
to add, with different styles for each. I'm just a little surprised
that, as flexible as Scite's options are, the syntax highlighting is
so rigid.
Well, this is one of the *reasons* lexers get written - you want
syntax coloring done a particular way, and none of the existing lexers
can be coerced into doing what you want... :)
Before I wrote the one for OCaml, I had some of the same issues as you
- why isn't this more flexible/useful/what I want? But then you
realize after studying it that real languages are full of special
and/or weird cases (WRT syntax coloring) and are not really amenable
to being handled by some sort of regular expression -based solution
(which is what some of the "universal" lexers constructed have tried
to do).
I also see an entry in my python.properties file called:
# Identifiers
style.python.11=
What are "identifiers" in this context? And why is there no style
associated with them by default? Is this perhaps something I can
commandeer as well? :)
Look at a few more .properties files - you will probably see that this
is by far the most common way of handling a language's "identifiers".
It just turns out to be fairly standard practice to *not* color or
highlight programmer-defined identifiers, only the language-defined
identifiers and operators.
None of this means you can't tweak any of these styles to your own
liking on your installation, of course... ;)
Robert Roessler
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