[TxMt] Re: TextMate grammars and nested multiline comments

[Jens Axel Søgaard]

2015-01-07 6:34 GMT+01:00 Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org>:
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 1:17, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
>
>> Here is my non-working attempt:
>>
>> repository:
>> multilinecomment:
>>  begin:         \#\|
>>  end:           \|\#
>>  name:          comment
>>  contentName:   comment
>>  patterns:
>>  - include:     "#multilinecomment"
>>    name:        comment
>>  - match:       ([^\|]|\|(?=[^#]))*
>>    name:        comment
>
> I don’t understand why you have the last match rule.
>
> Without it, it should work fine to match nested multi-line comments.

That works - takker!

As for the reason I put the last match rule in, I simply thought
a rule was needed to match the "inside" of a comment.

If anyone on this list uses Racket, the grammar is available here:

https://github.com/soegaard/racket-highlight-for-github

--
Jens Axel Søgaard