Re: [gtk-list] Syntac Highlighting

[Andreas Leitner <leitner eiffel com>]

Thorsten Fischer wrote:
> 
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> this may be a bit off-topic, but I do not know where else to ask that
> question. I would like to have a text widget in my program which is able
> to perform syntax hightlighting. This should be modular, i.e. not for a
> particular language like C or HTML, but setable by the user - maybe it
> would even incorporate a plug-in architecture.
> 
> Despite being used to tools like yacc (or bison) and flex, I simply do not
> know where to start. Any hints will be highly appreciated.

Have a look at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/eddownload.html. I don't
know this editor very good, but it sounds like what you are looking for.
I am not sure with the runtime gramer thing though.


best regards,
Andreas