[antlr-interest] Newbie: problem with semantic differentiation in the lexer

[Martin Probst]

> Because I want to develop a query editor I want to extend it with an 
> auto completion mechanism. This means at the position of IDENT after 
> 'from' I want to choose between all existing objects coming from an 
> repository and at the position of IDENT after 'select' I want to show 
> all available attributes corresponding to the object selected after 'from'.
> To do this, I have to distinguish between both of these IDENTs. So how 
> can I do this???? Any proposals? Please help.

What about getting the last token in the editor left of the current
caret position and deciding depending on it's type?

Martin