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So far, the most challenging part was highlighting things that counts as comment rather than pointers to image pixels or accessible variables. That's not the end of my trouble though.
I do want to figure out how to highlight "expr" including newlines inside expr. expr is basically any mathematical expression that is utilized on JIT compilation.
Along with that to set up regex inside it to highlight section of expr.
While still maintaining priority of regex. So, if one regex is more important, it'll overwrite whatever highlighted.
Was that what modes are for?
What do you mean? I'm pretty new to making syntax highlighting for KDE Kate, so I'm just now fixing my other thing before I get into much more advanced concept of it.
The way I remember stuff and it seems to be explained in here a context is a way to limit the amount of checked regexes. So as I understand you can start an expr context if you hit one of those keywords. Kind of like modes in XSL or working with a stack.
That document also describes how to handle newlines in context.