[TxMt] is it possible to use a capture in another match in language grammars?

[Chris Knight]

Hello,

I am working on a language grammar for HCS12 assembly language.  I have read
the portion of the manual on language grammars (chapter 12) and
unfortunately for me it has led to more questions than answers.  I have read
the re.txt file and have tried many things with no apparent effect,
certainly not the one I am looking for.

I have the following code that matches a label definition perfectly:

{	name = 'string.label.def';
	comment = 'case insensitive - label definition';
	match = '^(\S)+:';
	captures = { 1 = { name = 'string.label'; }; };
},

Now what I want to do is use the capture in another match statement to find
all references to the same labels when they are being called.  They will no
longer be the first word of line and they will no longer have a ":" suffix. 
It seems to me that capture group above should have just the labels.  If I
could use that capture group to then find all matches of the label then my
problem to match unknown labels and not get false matches to other strings
that are not being matched.  

An example code snippet my language grammar is intended for is:

          staa     PORTB            ; light the segments
          ldaa     PTP                ; only alter port p bits we are using
          anda    #$f0
          oraa    dspmap,x        ; light up correct char
          staa     PTP
          bra      TA3
TA2:    bset     PTP #$0f        ; turn off seven segment LEDs
          movb   displ PORTB     ; set value of LED row
          bclr     PTJ #2            ; turn on LED row        
TA3:

In the above snippet TA2: and TA3: are matched by my regex.  I want to use
capture group if possible to match the labels when in the third column, in
the above snippet only TA3 is shown.  I don't want to match anything in the
third column that is not a label.  A label will never appear in the first
column which is already matched by other regex.  The forth column are
obviously comments and they are matched by other regex.  

So, how do I do what I want to do? 

Thank you kindly in advance,
~Chris



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