Re: [gedit-list] GtkSourceView

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:24:27PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> In the last days I made a color and syntax scheme for Nim language.
>
> http://ssalewski.de/tmp/NEd-SHD.png
>
> https://github.com/ngtk3/NEd/tree/master/src
>
> Generally its was working really fine, and the documentation is also
> fine.
>
> For final tuning I tried to use regexes like this:
>
> <!-- Nim identifier, maybe enclosed in ``, starting lower or upper case -->
> <define-regex id="nid">(?'a'`?)[a-zA-Z]\w*(\k'a')</define-regex>
>
> That gave me a lot trouble. Is it a known problem that regexes with
> back references are problematic? Or is there maybe a better working
> notation available? Unnamed back reference with \1 seems to do not work
> at all. Of course I can avoid back references when I do use too ored
> regexes, one with `` and one without.

Maybe you can create a context with <start> and <end> tags? But I
haven't tried to understand fully the above regex (still the morning
here).

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Sébastien