Re: [gedit-list] Meaning of match-empty-string-at-*?

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Johan Tibell wrote:
> What exactly is the meaning of the match-empty-string-at-beginning/end
> in the keyword-list element of gtksourceview .lang files? I'm trying
> to match words on the form $identfier, this works but I'm unsure of
> why:
>   
match-empty-string-at-beginning/end  adds \b at the beginning/end of the 
regex: if your keywords are foo, bar and baz, the regex that is matched 
is \b(foo|bar|baz)\b if match-empty-string-at-beginning/end are true, 
while it will be (foo|bar|baz) if they are false. \b means that there 
should be a word boundary, setting it to FALSE is needed to work around 
keywords which begin/end with characters which are not considered 
boundaries.


> Also is there a way to indicate what part of a regex match I want
> highlighted. For example I would like type names (int, string, void,
> etc.) to be highlighted if and only if the appear after a colon (:)
> but I don't want the colon to be highlighted.
>   
I don't think this is possible at the moment. I hope it will be adressed 
in the new highlighting engine that's being worked on.


ciao

   Paolo

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