Ron Aaron wrote:
> AFAICT, the syntax highlighting engine operates solely by means of regex > matches. That's fine as far as it goes, but one of my users has implemented > a more useful kind of syntax highlighting in "VSCode" for my "8th" language. > > Essentially, in 8th (as in most Forths), you can be in either "interpret" > or "compile" mode, and some words (functions) are illegal in one or the > other modes. It is very useful to be able to flag such a case in the > editor, to alert the programmer of a likely error. > > So, for example, the word "if" is illegal in 8th, in 'interpret' mode. > > There are a few words which signal that the mode is 'compile' and a few > others which turn it off. > > Is there a reasonable way to get the vim syntax highlighter to recognize > this kind of situation? Probably the simplest is to recognize all the syntax items, and then only define highlighting for what you want to see. You could provide a user command to switch between states. To still allow for user defined highlighting, you would add or remove links with "hi link MyLangItem DoHighlight" and "hi link MyLangItem NONE". -- You know you use Vim too much when you have this alias in your ~/.bashrc file: alias :e=/bin/vim (Eljay Love-Jensen) /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/201909271132.x8RBWlwS016366%40masaka.moolenaar.net.
