Re: [Beaver-devel] Syntax Highlighting

[Leslie Polzer]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:00:03 -0500
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:

> So, I have a record of every ascii character's keyword 
> status -- whether it appears in a keyword, whether it starts a keyword, 
> or whether it ends a keyword.  I go backward from start iter to find 
> first character that isn't in a keyword or the first delimiter.  The 
> same for end iter, except I always go at least one forward, I think.
Seems expensive.

> If the character starts a 'special string' like a string or char 
> marker, a line comment starter, or a block comment start or end, it 
> creates a GtkTextMark and adds it to a list for the buffer.
I suppose we could do brace matching with this...?

> That's the basic idea.  Want any more info?
Kind of. Are you going to put that syntax highlighting stuff
into a separate file?

Leslie