[TxMt] Different background color for comments

[Ivar Åsell]

I've been wanting to customize syntax highlighting aswell... but I 
don't really understand the syntax.
(Proberbly regexp huh? Really need to learn more on that quickly!)
>    patterns = (
>      /* comments */
>      { name = "Comment"; begin = "/\\*"; end = "\\*/"; foregroundColor 
> = "#FF00FF"; backgroundColor = "#FFFFDC"; },

begin="/\\*"  - What does the first forwardslash do?? The first 
backslash only escapes the following one?

Regards
ivar


On 2004-11-16, at 17.59, M Spreij wrote:

> Robert Occhialini wrote:
>> Something I have become accustomed to in my Win32 text editor of 
>> choice (Homesite+) is customizing the syntax highlighting so that 
>> comments have a different (yellow) background color.
>> Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Aye there is, this is near the start of my PHP syntax file (I'd tell 
> you how and why so but I only ever hacked around in those plist files 
> so I'm better of copy/pasting ;-)
>
>    patterns = (
>      /* comments */
>      { name = "Comment"; begin = "/\\*"; end = "\\*/"; foregroundColor 
> = "#FF00FF"; backgroundColor = "#FFFFDC"; },
>
> Regards,
>
>     Martin
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