[TxMt] Re: How To Highlight Custom Syntax

[Rob McBroom]

On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Graden Hudson wrote:

> Here's a line of code in the example that I simply do not  
> understand, at all:
>  7           match = '\b(if|while|for|return)\b';
>
> I did look at the existing HTML grammar, but that did not make much  
> sense to me, either. Should I start somewhere else in the manual? I  
> think I'm missing some basic concepts here.

If that makes no sense to you, you'll probably want to look at the  
section on Regular Expressions.

   http://manual.macromates.com/en/regular_expressions#regular_expressions

I won't lie to you. It gets much, much worse than the example above. :)

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