[antlr-interest] Building syntax highlighters with ANTLR

[Terence Parr]

Let's hear the details, Sam! :)
Ter
On Apr 9, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Sam Harwell wrote:

> I’ve made a few posts about this in the past, and it looks like  
> another one is on the way. I designed a new, much easier, robust,  
> and general way to make a syntax highlighter from a grammar, and it  
> even allows clean “stacking” of lexers. As a quick example, my  
> primary grammar recognizes a block comment, but it doesn’t recognize  
> Doxygen syntax within that comment. By stacking a Doxygen-style  
> fragment lexer in the colorizer, and telling it to post-process any  
> token of primary type “DOC_COMMENT”, I ended up with this.
>
> I’d give the gory details now, but it’s 3:30am – just had to share  
> because figuring this out is what kept me up! I can’t wait to see  
> multi-level lexer stacking for my StringTemplate highlighter. J
>
> <image001.png>
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