[TxMt] Language grammar question

[Pavan Gunupudi]

Neat hack. Works like a charm. Thanks.

Pavan

On 3-Jun-07, at 7:46 PM, Michael Sheets wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Pavan Gunupudi wrote:
>
>> I am writing a bundle for Spice-like circuit simulator input  
>> files. For these text files, one of the rules is to have the first  
>> line as a comment, no matter what is on the line. I was wondering  
>> how this could be incorporated into the language grammar to set  
>> the appropriate scope for the first line.
>
> This would almost be impossible because there is no way for a match  
> or begin to see any surrounding line, hence it is impossible to  
> know if your on the first line or not.
>
> However we know there is a first line, so we can create a begin/end  
> match that never ends to match the first line:
>
> http://pastie.textmate.org/67495
>
> Then put the remaining patterns inside it, case solved. (Note the  
> use of capture 0 here, which matches the entire begin line.)
>
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