Questions tagged [syntax-highlighting]
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How could syntax highlighting work for 2D languages?
In my 2D esolang, Trilangle, most instructions are a single character, which makes syntax highlighting trivial. However, the "push" instructions are two characters each, which complicates ...
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How do I explain to a syntax highlighter to highlight `a` differently in `load s0, a` (where it is a hexadecimal constant) and `regbank a`? [duplicate]
In the syntax highlighter I have implemented in my PicoBlaze Simulator in JavaScript, the assembly code
address 0
load s0, 0
load s0, a
regbank a
is highlighted as ...
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How to correctly highlight contextual keywords?
Contextual keywords are tokens that are keywords in some contexts, and identifiers in others. Consider this example, which SE's highlighter gets wrong:
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