[TxMt] RegExp n00b

[Jeroen van der Ham]

On 13-09-2005 15:00, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> My own question - what is the importance of saving sub-expressions in 
> both of the above cases?

They are used for assigning scopes. (which are used for colouring and
commands, etc.)

See:
http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/06/23/language-grammars/#more-43
 Under the headline, "Named Captures and Content"

Jeroen.
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