From reading the Introduction (which I feel I understand), it looks like
this is a great start. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. -- Graden Hudson Graphic Designer Wellness Council of America 9802 Nicholas Street, Ste. 315 | Omaha, NE 68114 Phone: 402.827.3590 | Fax: 402.827.3594 ghudson@welcoa.org | www.welcoa.org
From: Rob McBroom mailinglist0@skurfer.com Reply-To: TextMate users textmate@lists.macromates.com Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:38:02 -0500 To: TextMate users textmate@lists.macromates.com Subject: [TxMt] Re: How To Highlight Custom Syntax
On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Graden Hudson wrote:
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.
If that makes no sense to you, you'll probably want to look at the section on Regular Expressions.
http://manual.macromates.com/en/regular_expressions#regular_expressions
I won't lie to you. It gets much, much worse than the example above. :)