Use this

/L20"Data files" Nocase Noquote File Extensions = DAT
/Delimiters = ! " %&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^{|}~
/Marker Characters = "[]"
/C1"Tags"
[]


or this

/L20"Data files" Nocase Noquote Block Comment On = [ Block Comment Off = ] File Extensions = DAT
/Delimiters = ! " %&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^{|}~

Hi cjswimmer!

Question 1:

1) Move the line

//Marker Characters = "[]" to the position before the line /Indent Strings = and remove first /. You have added the marker characters definition with // which is 1 / too much. That's the reason why it has not worked.

2) Convert your

/C2"Object References"
[
]

to

/C2"Object References"
[]

It's important that the marker characters are defined as string in a color group and not as single characters. This is an exception from the standard rule for keywords.

3) At /C5"Separators" delete the lines with [ and ].


Question 2:

No, more than 2 words for OR expression is not possible. I suggest to define the function string for your functions a bit more flexible like the function strings are for C/C++. Ignore the type names before the function name. In your example file I could see that the functions are called by functioname(..); So a single function string could be used.

Solution 1:
/Function String = "%[ ^t]++[a-z]+[ ^t]+^([a-z_]+^)[ ^t]++(*)[~;]"

% ... start of the line.

[ ^t]++ ... 0 or more occurences of a space and/or tab. You could also remove this part of the expression because I have not seen a function definition with preceding spaces in your example files.

[a-z]+ ... a string with a least 1 character which has only letters a-z in any case. Instead of a-z you could also specify only the letters which really exist in all return types.

[ ^t]+ ... 1 or more occurences of a space and/or tab.

^([a-z_]+^) ... the function name which is shown in the function list. You have forgotten the underscore in your expressions.

[ ^t]++ ... 0 or more occurences of a space and/or tab. You could also remove this part of the expression because I have not seen a function definition with spaces between function name and opening ( in your example files.

(*) ... a string of any length enclosed in round brackets.

[~;] ... after closing ) the next character can be any character (space, CR, LF, ...) except a semicolon. If you have never have trailing spaces or a comment following a function definition you could also use a single $ instead of [~;] to specify that the closing ) must be at the end of a line.


Solution 2:
/Function String = "%[ ^t]++[a-z]+[ ^t]+^([a-z_]+[ ^t]++(*)^)[~;]"

Similar to solution 1 but now the function name and also the parameters are displayed in the function list.


And last you should add Strings = " DisableMLS after Line Comment // in the language definition line.

A single ' is often used in your examples but do not specify a string. So Strings = " defines only the double quote character as valid string character. DisableMLS disables multi-line string highlighting. In your examples I have not seen a multi-line string definition in your examples so it's better to disable it to not highlight everything from current cursor position to next " in the file if you start to enter a new string with entering ".

The whole modified language definition. Add the tab character to the delimiters again if you copy this text from your browser because it is replaced by HTML with a single space:

/L10"KOLMafia ASH" Line Comment = // Strings = " DisableMLS File Extensions = ASH
/Delimiters = !@%^&*()-+=|/{}[\];" , .?
/Function String = "%[ ^t]++[a-z]+[ ^t]+^([a-z_]+^)[ ^t]++(*)[~;]"
/Marker Characters = "[]"
/Indent Strings = "{" "else"
/Unindent Strings = "}" "else"
/C1"Keywords"
$class $effect $familiar $item $location $skill $stat $zodiac
boolean
class
effect else
familiar false float
if import int item
location
return
skill stat string
true
void
while
zodiac
/C2"Object References"
[]
/C3"ASH functions"
adventure add_item_condition
boolean_to_string bounty_hunter_wants buy
can_eat can_drink can_interact class_to_string cli_execute closet_amount council create
effect_to_string equip equip_familiar
familiar_to_string float_to_string
have_bartender have_chef have_effect have_skill
int_to_string item_amount item_to_string
location_to_string
mind_control museum_amount my_adventures my_basestat my_buffedstat my_class my_closetmeat my_familiar my_hp my_inebriety
my_level my_maxhp my_maxmp my_meat my_mp my_name my_zodiac
print put_closet put_shop put_stash
shop_amount skill_to_string stash_amount stat_to_string storage_amount
take_closet take_storage trade_bounty_hunter trade_hermit trade_trapper
unequip use use_skill
zodiac_to_string
/C4"Operators"
!
%
&&
*
+
-
// /
<
=
>
||
/C5"Separators"
(
)
,
;
{
}