Re: Question to syntax highlighting
Tim Hubberstey <[email protected]>
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On 2009-06-18 07:57, David, Patrick (I/EG-711) wrote: > Hello out there, > > I use nedit to work on input files for the software ABAQUS (a finite > element solver). > I want to teach my nedit to highlight different keywords in a > non-case-sensitive way. For example the words "step" shall be > highlighted independet of upper or lower cases. So "Step" is also a > valid keyword as "step" or "STEP" or "sTep" or ... > > I am not very familiar with regex so I have my problems with it. Can you > help me to build it? I hope for a simple solutions becaus my list of > keywords is long... > > hfh > Greetings from > Patrick I've found that the easiest way to build a syntax pattern is to start with the pattern for a language that is similar to your target and modify it. In your case, a non-case-sensitive keyword-oriented language like Ada or VHDL is probably a good starting place. -- NEdit Discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss