http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Does anyone know how Eclipse handles syntax highlighting? There are some tips for using JFace Text and similar, but its not certainly as simple as in #develop!! http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment7http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment7Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:57:22 GMTAndrey, I have only shown a very small part of it. It is most certainly possible to create a C# highlighting with it. In fact, there is such a language definition! http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment6http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment6Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:57:18 GMTAs far as I see from this XML, it is not a grammar -- it is a keyword list. So it is not possible to create a valid C# highlighting using it. The nice thing about working with grammar/AST is that you always get highlighting based on how this compiles (and doing compilation/parsing in background may actually make sense for small DSL files). http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment5http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment5Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:54:57 GMTAndrey, It does, but you don't want to do that. It is too complex. You suggestion is what #Develop does, but with XML instead of .g files http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment4http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment4Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:08:14 GMTDoes not the Boo-provided AST have enough information to do the highlighting? I've never lloked at the Boo compiler, but it is probably possible to get AST annotated with line/column numbers? One of my dream projects was building ANTLR/Coco grammar-based highlighting support into Visual Studio -- basically a VS/*proj configuration option "*.x is handled by ..\..\x.grammar". Unfortunately actually implementing such thing can take an awful lot of time. http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment3http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment3Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:46:33 GMThuh. interesting & pretty cool. Do you use SharpDevelop often? http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment2http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment2Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:01:11 GMTGood work! Looks great! http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment1http://ayende.com/3542/custom-syntax-highlighting#comment1Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:40:37 GMT