Re: [Help-source-highlight] How does source highlight work?

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Sam Edwards wrote:
> I read some documentation and it looks like you define .lang files that 
> show what a constitues a language, being a comment, system words and so 
> forth.  Is all the source highlighting done through regular expressions 
> and text searches or is the code parsed at all?
>
> Thanks,
> -Sam Edwards

Hi Sam!

it's just like you said: it only uses regular expressions (no parsing) 
and cross references are achieved by using ctgas.

hope this answers your question.

cheers
        Lorenzo

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