[Edt-devel] More editor work

[Dave M. <dm...@cs...>]

Hi:

The syntax hghlighting is 99% complete.  I am still getting some
problems creating a detector for types in eiffel.

According to NICE, a type should be a capital letter followed by a
sequence of capital letters, digits, and underscores.

More formally: (A,...,Z) {(A,...,Z),(0,...,9), _)}*

Using a simple TypeDetector which extends WordDetector is giving me
problems.

Basically, there are two methods I need to implement:

isWordStart(char) : boolean  -- beginning of word

isWordPart(char) : boolean --part of word

So I naively implement isWordStart to return true if it's a capital
letter and isWordStart returns true if it's a capital letter, number or
underscore.


However, the result is as follows:

ABC, C9_,  gets highlighted

aBC does not get highlighted

but Abc results in the 'A' getting highlighted.

Do I need to subclass WordRule?


Please advise,

DM