Re: [Groff] GroffHub

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi John,

Nice work.

> Yes, a limitation in highlighting is that each regular expression is
> scoped to one line at once, so there's no possibility of knowing
> what's on the next line, or what was on the previous line. This is
> done by the TextMate-grammar engine for performance reasons, but it
> also makes working with line-based languages like Roff a nightmare.

Understood.  That's why .ig doesn't cause subsequent lines to be
ignored.  And why \\fB inside a .de is treated as \fB.  Why is .PS
orange versus .PE's purple?

Cheers, Ralph.