From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T01:12:10+09:00
Subject: Re: SciTE/VIM Syntax highlighting

On Saturday 07 September 2002 04:41 am, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Jim Bartlett:
> > aPhrase.scan /\w[-\w']+/
> >
> > The syntax highlighting in SciTE and Vim then interprets all code
>
> following
>
> > the apostrophe to be part of a single quoted string (making it pink).
>
>    SciTE's Ruby lexer does not understand regular expressions so there is
> no way short of fixing the lexer to make this work.
>
>    Neil

I just spent the last six weeks trying to write an editor using the Ruby lexer 
from irb to aid in syntax highlighting.  So at the moment, I am of the 
opinion that a proper lexer is probably not fast enough to be anything more 
than an aggravation in syntax highlighting :-)