[antlr-interest] [stringtemplate-interest] StringTemplate editing in Visual Studio

[Sam Harwell]

I'm using a barely-modified group.g3 in my C# StringTemplate 3.2 port,
and the colorizer uses it directly. As I was mentioning on my blog, the
key to using ANTLR lexers in a syntax highlighter making sure the lexer
can cleanly handle *any* single line of source without context other
than a single integer used for marking the state at the beginning of a
line.

I'm working on a framework for automatic handling of island grammars in
this kind of line-by-line lexer, at which point I'll be able to
arbitrarily highlight any tokens of the StringTemplate sub-grammars.
You'll have to write your own highlighter since it won't be in Visual
Studio, but I can detail some of the method once it's up and running.

Since many lexers use few (if any) actions, we've had remarkable success
getting new syntax highlighters up and running. Once I had the
StringTemplate C# port running, it took less than 2hrs to build the
syntax highlighter as it sits now.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Terence Parr [mailto:parrt at cs.usfca.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:34 AM
To: Sam Harwell
Cc: antlr-interest Interest; stringtemplate-interest
Subject: Re: [stringtemplate-interest] StringTemplate editing in Visual
Studio

That looks great!  I was going to explore for ANTLRWorks sometime this  
year.  Great job...now I can copy you! ;)
Ter
On Oct 21, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Sam Harwell wrote:

> I'm in the initial stages of the StringTemplate portion of an editor  
> for
> Visual Studio. At this point, it doesn't do anything crazy but I'm
> posting a screenshot to try and draw some feedback. Does anyone have  
> an
> idea what the syntax highlighting for StringTemplate should look like
> optimally? I have a few ideas I'll run with for now and hopefully
> they'll prove usable.
>
> The screenshot is under the StringTemplate section on this page:
>
http://wiki.pixelminegames.com/index.php?title=Tools:nFringe:Antlr:Featu
> res
>
> On a side note, the current preview release (16251) doesn't include  
> the
> StringTemplate syntax highlighter. It'll be in the next one.
>
> Sam
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