On Oct 21, 2005, at 23:44, minimal.design wrote:

I was just writing this PHP form thing and I like to use the "here document" syntax for it. While it technically makes sense that the whole block within the <<<TAG [ ... ] TAG; is colored as a string, it makes it hard to read a large block of let's say HTML (kind of a very usual use for it)... Is there anyway to keep the HTML within colored as regular HTML?

Hope my question makes sense :)

Sure, and it can be done. For example in my perl language 'extension' I use the definition below:

{ name = 'string.unquoted.heredoc.quote.html.perl'; begin = "<< *'HTML' *;"; end = '^HTML$'; patterns = ( { include = 'text.html.basic'; } ); },

Gerd