Topic: SYN-file: recognizing comments... (1 of 3), Read 28 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Michael Baas Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 09:48 AM I hope this is the appropriate board for the topic... I would like to define a SYN-File for Inno Setup (www.jrsoftware.org) and have a problem with handling inline comments, since they are seperated from rest of the line by a simple ';'. ; however is also used to seperate multiple parameters. So a comment would be anything that starts ";", optionally followed by whitespace and NOT followed by a reserved name. Any ideas how to do this? (I thought about using a matching code which would contain all the reserved names, but then I noticed that features like "not matching.." are RegExp and are not provided by the code matching available for SYN.) Cheers Michael

Topic: Re: SYN-file: recognizing comments... (2 of 3), Read 28 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Ted Green Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 01:05 PM At 09:50 AM 8/13/2003, you wrote: >I hope this is the appropriate board for the topic... >I would like to define a SYN-File for Inno Setup (www.jrsoftware.org) >and have a problem with handling inline comments, since they are >seperated from rest of the line by a simple ';'. ; however is also used >to seperate multiple parameters. So a comment would be anything that >starts ";", optionally followed by whitespace and NOT followed by a >reserved name. This does not appear to be possible; sorry. Frankly, a proper syntax should never depend upon later elements. Such a syntax would flunk any course on compiler design. (Sorry to rant and rave.) I try to accommodate unusual languages, but that is going too far. Ted.

Topic: AW: SYN-file: recognizing comments... (3 of 3), Read 28 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Michael Baas Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 01:12 PM > Sorry to rant and rave. No problem, I agree with you :-) Cheers Michael