On Dec 6, 2004, at 19:22, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:

[...] The thing I want to do is something like:

• match commands (begin with '' followed by a word
• this can be followed by [\w+]
• and this can be followed by {.*}

And what I would like to do is apply the global patterns to the '.*' mentioned above, and if nothing global matches, then apply a color.

Yes, that requires recursion in the rules which is not supported at present time (but will be a 1.1 thing). You can make the inner rule match nested braces though, something like: {[^{}]*(?R)?[^{}]*}

This will match a sequence of properly nested braces from the starting brace to the matching ending brace. E.g. for the string: \foo{\bar{\fud{...}}} \other

It will match this portion: {\bar{\fud{...}}}

But be careful with the (?R) construct, it currently doesn't check for infinite recursions (which include left-recursions).

PS. I seem to remember something about using groups to define different colors in a pattern, but I forgot how that works. Can anyone tell me how that works and/or add that to the wiki ? :)

This is from Help -> Syntax Highlight:

Additionally you can append [n] to any of the keys which set the color or font style, to only make the color/font style affect the nth regular expression capture. When you add this suffix, you must quote the key, if you use the ASCII property list format.

For example, if we want to match @selector, but only want to underline the word part, we could make a rule like this: ( match = "@(selector)"; "fontStyle[1]" = ( underline ); )