Highlighting language variants in a structured way

Highlighting language variants in a structured way

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Power UserPower User
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    Oct 05, 2005#1

    Hi,

    I deal a lot with several variants of Basic (Rational Rose Basic, Rational Robot Basic, SaxBasic, Visual Basic, VB.Net, Word Basic... - you get the picture)

    Is it possible to use multi-language support to handle these variants easily?

    What I'm thinking is to have a Base Basic, which contains all the common stuff and then have variants that use it.

    At present, I have to amend each variant which is a real pain...

    If it's doable, what are the essential elements of the process?

    TIA,
    Paolo
    There is no such thing as an inconsistently correct system...
    Therefore, aim for consistency; in the expectation of reaching correctness!
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    Basic UserBasic User
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      Oct 06, 2005#2

      that would be ###very### neat!
      The variation that comes to mind is with any web-app scripts - PERL/ASP/PHP etc, the highlights need to be able to distinguish between the code and page output
      e.g.

      PERL:

      $somevar = qq~<sometags>~;

      ^ PERL--------^ ^ html-----^^PERL

      or

      $somevar = qq~select [id],[col1] from [sometable]~;

      ^ tsql--------------------------------^
      ASP (VBscript)

      response.write(somevar & "<sometag>")
      ^vbs------------------------^^html------^

      perhaps if one language syntax could have others associated with it to handle highlighting per situation .....


      Hey., I know the syntax highlighting of UE still needs some work doing on it, but this would be an amazing watermark to get to!
      112
      Power UserPower User
      112

        Apr 03, 2009#3

        Hi Everyone,

        The New Word files for V15 look really NEAT! And IDM have incorporated a couple of my requests over the years. However this one hasn't been... Given the new functionality, is there any way to achieve this or should I put in another request? It would seem to be relatively easy now... Just add a new directive: InheritFrom=<filename>
        and for each section (whose number must agree with the parent file) start each line with + or - to add or delete the selected items...

        TIA,
        Paolo
        There is no such thing as an inconsistently correct system...
        Therefore, aim for consistency; in the expectation of reaching correctness!
        119
        Power UserPower User
        119

          Apr 06, 2009#4

          This is a bit of a tangent, but I put in a feature request for syntax highlighting to support multiple languages in a single file. UE already does this for HTML but I'm hoping for generic support. (e.g. HTML and CSS embedded in a Perl CGI script.) The idea seems to have piqued some interest. If anyone here thinks it's a good idea send a request to IDM. The more people who express interest the more likely it is to happen.