Re: [joe] Syntax highlighting and XML

[Brian C. <B.C...@po...>]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 03:23:43PM -0400, ja...@av... wrote:
> This and the above should now be fixed in the latest CVS version.  Can do a
> "cvs update ." in the joe-current directory and try it?  You have to begin
> with "aclocal" etc.

Will do.

> >It still does not work well though; it appears to be the same as with
> >joe-3.0. Using the 'test.xml' which I posted before, I get cyan for strings:
> 
> Oh, I had forgotten that the released joe 3.0 had the xml highlighter.

It didn't - I just pulled the xml.jsf from CVS and tried it with 3.0 before
trying it with the CVS version of the binary.

> Ok, I looked at it.
> 
> The problem is that you can't have options after strings- you really need
> recolor and noeat to do what you want.

Thanks. Actually I realised that shortly after posting, and tried
introducing an intermediate state to get around it:

:decl Decl
        *               decl            strings
        "!--"           comment_fix                 <<<<<<<<
        "![CDATA["      cdata_fix                   <<<<<<<<
done
        "<"             decl_nest
        ">"             start

:cdata_fix CdataStart                                           <<<<<<
        *               cdata_start     noeat recolor=-9        <<<<<<

:cdata_start CdataStart
        *               cdata           noeat

...etc

:comment_fix CommentStart                                      <<<<<<
        *               comment_start   noeat recolor=-4       <<<<<<

:comment_start CommentStart
        *               comment         noeat

...etc

The full .jsf is attached if you'd like to try it. What I now get is an
off-by-one error, for example

<!--testing-->

<      is cyan (wrong)
!--    is green underlined (ok)
t      is green underlined (wrong)
esting is green (ok)

It looks like "recolor" works from the position *after* the matched
character, even if "noeat" was specified. Is that intentional? If so, I
can't see how to work around this.

> It's a good idea, so I will change
> the highlighter code to allow for options.  It should be ready later today
> or tomorrow: I'll send mail to you again.

Excellent, thanks.

Best wishes,

Brian.