Syntax highlighting

[hohe72 at arcor.de]

How about:

context default brightgreen
  keyword [ brightmagenta
  keyword ] brightmagenta

context exclusive [ \s white

Ben <2blkbelt at nemontel.net> wrote (Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:33:59 -0600):
> I have written a language where operations on content are specified in
> brackets, like this:
> 
> [a content]
> 
> The brackets can appear anywhere on a line, and they can be nested.
> 
> I would *like* to have the brackets one color, the keyword ('a' in the
> above example) another color, and the remainder another color.
> 
> I want the keywords to stand out, but the braces separately obvious
> for visual matching purposes without having to put the cursor on them.

At mcedit the syntax highlighting's brace matching don't work for nested
braces. '+' and '*' are greedy, 'context' is always generous. The
matching cursor is more reliable.

> This *almost* works...
> 
> context default brightgreen
>     keyword [ brightmagenta
>     keyword ] brightmagenta
> 
> context exclusive [ ] brightgreen
>     keyword [ brightmagenta
>     keyword ] brightmagenta
>     keyword whole a white
> 
> ...in that this...
> 
> [a foo bar]
> 
> ...displays correctly, the 'a' in bar not highlighting in white.
> 
> But this makes BOTH occurrences of 'a' white...
> 
> [a this is a test]
> 
> ...where the first 'a' is a keyword, as easily distinguished by it
> following the opening bracket, but the second 'a' is not, as it does
> not follow an opening bracket.
> 
> Anyone have any idea if this can be made to work?
> 
> Any assistance much appreciated.
> 
> The email address in the syntax highlighting file for Paul, the
> author of the syntax stuff, bounces, no big surprise, sigh.