<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [TxMt] Re: How To Highlight Custom Syntax</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, Allan. Thanks for jumping in to help me. I was able to sort of understand some things like I am obviously going to have to declare a pattern (begins with "%link=" ends with "%"), but when I read about rule keys like "name" and "match", I am lost. I am primarily an HTML/CSS guy, and I do not delve much into other languages just yet. Here's a line of code in the example that I simply do not understand, at all: 7 match = '\b(if|while|for|return)\b'; I did look at the existing HTML grammar, but that did not make much sense to me, either. Should I start somewhere else in the manual? I think I'm missing some basic concepts here. Thanks, again, for your help. -- Graden Hudson Graphic Designer Wellness Council of America 9802 Nicholas Street, Ste. 315 | Omaha, NE 68114 Phone: 402.827.3590 | Fax: 402.827.3594 <a href="ghudson@welcoa.org">ghudson@welcoa.org</a> | www.welcoa.org <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%">From: Allan Odgaard <<a href="mailinglist@textmate.org">mailinglist@textmate.org</a>> Reply-To: TextMate users <<a href="textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a>> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:47:47 +0100 To: TextMate users <<a href="textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a>> Subject: [TxMt] Re: How To Highlight Custom Syntax On 5 Nov 2009, at 00:06, Graden Hudson wrote: > I would like to know how to extend the syntax styling to highlight a > proprietary syntax in my code [...] > Here is what I was reading: > <a href="http://manual.macromates.com/en/language_grammars">http://manual.macromates.com/en/language_grammars</a> That is indeed the canonical guide explaining how grammars work. So how much were you able to follow? Do you know regular expressions? Did you find the existing HTML grammar and look at that? _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </BODY> </HTML>