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davorb on April 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Build Your Own Text Editor

> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task...

For a lot of modes, Emacs does this using regex.

jokoon on April 8, 2017 [–]

Running a regex each time you type a character seems a little heavy to me...

Regex'ing languages like HTML or C++ can be quite mind breaking... I think.

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