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mreuvers
New Member
Netherlands
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 Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 07:44:00 AM
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Hi,
It would be very handy to add additional filetypes to VA. For instance it now only recognizes C/C++ like files, but if I want to edit in Vstudio my own filetype, no syntax highlighting will be present. Is there a way to define your own keywords, comments etc and link that to a certain filetype?
For instance:
filetype = *.abc; *.bde
startcomment_1 = ;
endcomment_1 =
startcomment_2 = #
endcomment_2 = #
startcommentblock_1 = /*
endcommentblock_1 = */
startstring_1 = "
endstring_1 = "
keywords
{
dowhile
whileend
for
then
}
etc etc
And that VA will recognise these settings when this kind of file is opened..
Regards,
Martijn
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - Mar 09 2004 : 10:54:08 AM
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Somone else asked this just a few days ago -- thread #1599.
Personally, I suspect you're underestimating the amount of work which is required to syntax-colour a file correctly. Try editing in emacs Perl mode to see how annoying it is when it's only 95% right. |
Stephen Turner
ClickTracks http://www.clicktracks.com/
Winner: ClickZ's Best Web Analytics Tool 2003 & 2004
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
18939 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2004 : 11:40:20 AM
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i have written some very simple syntax highlighting rules for vim 6. if you stick to matching whole words and simple regular expressions it isn't to hard, assuming you have a suitable syntax parser available to you.
the real problems start when you want to detect ranges and blocks. updating the syntax rules for #if 0, #else, #endif was an exercise in trial and error  |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - Mar 10 2004 : 11:53:09 AM
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Spotting built-in keywords and comment blocks is fairly easy. (Although emacs gets even this wrong in Perl, because hash inside a regexp doesn't start a comment -- unless the regexp is //x, when it does).
But what about colouring variables, for example? Or don't you care about those? |
Stephen Turner
ClickTracks http://www.clicktracks.com/
Winner: ClickZ's Best Web Analytics Tool 2003 & 2004
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