[ jEdit-users ] Dynamic / Programmatic Syntax Coloring

[Wildemar W. <wil...@fr...>]

Hi group

I don't know how I would call the feature I'd like to see in jEdit, the 
subject line beeing my best attempt. Would it be possible to allow for 
highlighting parts of text that do not strictly follow a special syntax 
but rather external criteria? So rather than highlighting via a static 
XML description, one could add some Beanshell or Java code to the syntax 
file that checks for certain conditions under certain circumstances.

The main use-case for me right now would be a WIKI-like set of text 
files in which link-words are highlighted according to whether they link 
to an existing entry or not.
Also, I'd like to (reliably and perhaps specially) highlight LaTeX 
commands that I define in the preamble (though that is something one 
could emulate though a modified latex mode definition).

That would require the colorizer to work a lot differently than it does 
right now (I suppose), so maybe its too big a step at this point. I'd 
like to hear what people think of that though.

/W