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Highlight certain parts in comments [message #1040317]

Sat, 13 April 2013 07:01

Eclipse User

Hey,

I was wondering whether it is possible to highlight certain parts e.g. links starting with @file in a comment. For example:

//this is a comment and then I have a link @file://a/link/to.somewhere and now the comment continues

I tried something like

terminal LINK:
	'@file://' -> ' '
;

terminal SL_COMMENT:
	';' (LINK | !( '@' | '\n' | '\r' ) )* ('\r'? '\n')?
;

but there is no node created for the LINK in SL_COMMENT. Is this possible at all?

Thanks in advance,
Maximilian

Re: Highlight certain parts in comments [message #1040348 is a reply to message #1040317]

Sat, 13 April 2013 08:10

Eclipse User

What about using a datatype rule?
or reparse the comment yourself

Re: Highlight certain parts in comments [message #1040417 is a reply to message #1040348]

Sat, 13 April 2013 10:53

Eclipse User

At the moment I do parse the comments myself. I was just wondering whether there was a nice 'built-in' solution for that. As the text to be highlighted is in comments (--> they have to be hidden) I need a terminal rule.

Re: Highlight certain parts in comments [message #1040449 is a reply to message #1040417]

Sat, 13 April 2013 11:58

Eclipse User

On 2013-13-04 16:53, Maximilian Girlich wrote:
> At the moment I do parse the comments myself. I was just wondering
> whether there was a nice 'built-in' solution for that. As the text to be
> highlighted is in comments (--> they have to be hidden) I need a
> terminal rule.

I do extensive comment formatting and coloring of comment text in
cloudsmith / geppetto @ github if you are interested in looking at code.

Geppetto has a markdown/rdoc type comment processor (handles
bold, italic, headers, bulleted lists, preformatted etc. etc.)
There is also configurable styling for the comment formatting.

Regards
- henrik

Re: Highlight certain parts in comments [message #1040460 is a reply to message #1040449]

Sat, 13 April 2013 12:25

Eclipse User

Okay, thanks! I gonna have a look at it and hope it won't be too complicated Wink

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