[TxMt] Configuring syntax highlighting programmatically

[Daniel Sadilek]

Hello,

I recently built my first TextMate bundle (http://sadilek.blogspot.com/2008/04/dna-sequence-analysis-with-textmate.html 
) for some simple DNA sequence analysis.
It was really easy to accomplish this with TextMate.
However, I'm missing one feature: is there any way to programmatically  
configure syntax highlighting?
What I want to achieve is that a user can configure pairs of string  
and color. All occurences of the string should be highlighted in the  
given color.
I have already built a corresponding dialog (very similar to the  
preference dialog of the TODO bundle) in which I can enter strings and  
select a color for each. The "only" thing missing is using this  
information for highlighting the text.

Best regards
Daniel Sadilek

P.S. This sort of function would be interesting for the TODO bundle,  
as well: for highlighting the TODO markers in the text.