[ jEdit-devel ] Help with Mode file for todotxt.

[Eric B. <el...@gm...>]

I'm creating a mode file for todotxt (
https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.txt-Format). I've
got every feature implemented except for the date-created feature.

More specifically, when date-created and priority are combined the date
must come after the priority.

Ex.
(A) 2011-03-02 Call Mom
(B) Call Mom 2011-03-02

In the example (A) and (B) are the priority, and (A) has a date-created
while (B) does not.

What I want to do is have the priority be one color LITERAL1, and the
date-created be KEYWORD4.

I can't seem to get 2 different TYPEs into a single or delegated rule.

I've tried doing a SEQ_REGEX with a DELEGATE attribute:
<SEQ_REGEXP TYPE="LITERAL1" AT_LINE_START="TRUE"
DELEGATE="DATE_FLOATING">\([AEIMQUY]\)\s\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}</SEQ_REGEXP>
<RULES SET="DATE_FLOATING">
   <SEQ_REGEXP TYPE="KEYWORD4">\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}</SEQ_REGEXP>
</RULES>

I've also tried a few incarnations of a EOL_SPAN_REGEXP, and SPAN_REGEXP.
It doesn't look like it's possible because anything that matches the REGEXP
doesn't get highlighted through the DELEGATE.

I might just punt and highlight all date's, but I was hoping I could
highlight date-created dates as specified in the docs specifically.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric B
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