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   arendedwinter
   Member

   I'm having some trouble with a schemedef I'm creating. The language uses -- for comment lines, and --[[text]] for comment blocks. However the block comment is not being styled (I believe it is because they both start with --. I tried the "contains" tag but that seemed to only crash pn). The code I'm using for the comments is:

   
<comments>
<line start="--" />
<block start="--[[" end="]]" />
</comments>


   Can anyone advise what I can do to get both comment style working? I'm using v2.0.9.970-devel.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Nux
   Member

   Strange language you have there... I think all languages I kno give precedence to inline comments example for C:
   
if (something) // blah /* still in commment
not_in_comment();


   So my guess is you should write your own lexer or find one that gives precedence to block comments.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Currently this isn't supported, as we check for line comments before block comments. You'd need a bit more logic to try to greedily match the block comment first. The code for the lexer is available, if you want to try and make this work.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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