[TxMt] Re: How To Highlight Custom Syntax

[Graden Hudson]

>From reading the Introduction (which I feel I understand), it looks like
this is a great start. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
-- 
Graden Hudson
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Wellness Council of America
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From: Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com>
Reply-To: TextMate users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:38:02 -0500
To: TextMate users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
Subject: [TxMt] Re: How To Highlight Custom Syntax

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. :)

-- 
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

Don't try to tell me a thing is important to you if the whole of your
"support" entails forcing others to spend time and money on it.


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