Hi all,
I want to make a syntax highlighter which I don’t think regex alone will allow, and therefore I believe a plugin is necessary. As far as I can tell I can only outline/fill/underline blocks. Can this be done with phantoms? I couldn’t get them to work at all.
Any help much appreciated, cheers
Joe
you can achieve quite a lot using .sublime-syntax files - they are not just regex, you crn make use of coetexts to track state
correct, plugins can’t affect foreground colors
I still think you’re better off using a syntax definition, using phantoms would be weird with duplicated text
Well, I’ll give it a go, but given there are no good C++ syntax highlighters that I can find, I assumed the syntax highlighted system was too limited.
It only seems to recognise known integral types like int/bool etc as types. I’d like it to make an assumption that if I write “SomeCustomType some_variable;” then SomeCustomType is a type, and some_variable is a variable.
That’s not a trivial task… you’d need a compiler to give you that information. For instance, a::b() could mean call the function b in namespace a, or call the static function b in class a, or instantiate a default constructed object of class b in namespace a, etc.
On the other hand, you may be able to hack it in in a sublime syntax file with the assumptions that you state.
I’d rather make assumptions and get something that isn’t always correct, rather than the frankly poor syntax highlighting we get.
And the example I gave is fairly trivial “Type variable;”, I agree other things are more complicated, e.g A::B, B could be a type or an enum value.