mcedit syntax highlight question

[_neo_]

Hi all.
I need to highlight comments on mcedit.
1) comments start with "--"
2) comments may may end with "\n" or with "--"

how to do it in mcedit syntax file?

These lines are my syntax file content which responsible to highlight comments

context -- \n brown # here I have trouble, comments may end with "--" too
spellcheck
context /\* \*/ brown
spellcheck

Please help!

[_neo_]

On mc internal editor's syntax file can't contain more than one 'context' tag which starts with the same symbols. Therefore I should use regular expression in this situation. I've already tried this syntax:

context -- \[\n|--\] brown
spellcheck

Anybody know what reg-exp should I use?

[_neo_]

Help, please...
I have not solved my problem yet...

[Gromit]

Hi _neo_!

Just to be sure, can you tell us what language you're working with? There are a couple of ways this might be accomplished, but I wanted to be sure I'm testing with the correct base syntax file first.

Thanks!
-G

[_neo_]

Hi Gromit.
I'm trying do syntax highlighting for ASN.1 syntax.
I've attached what I have now.
Please, help me.
Thank you in advance.

[Gromit]

Hmm... I wonder if you can do it like it's done in the lua.syntax file?

There's a 'keyword' line under 'context default' that looks like this:
keyword -- brown

There is also a separate section similar to the comment line that you have that looks like this:

context exclusive -- \n brown
    spellcheck

I hope this helps!
-Jeo

[_neo_]

Hi Gromit. Thank you for response.
I've tried do like lua's syntax file, but it doesn't solve my problem.

Does anybody have other ideas?

Here is example of one line comments:
code --start of one line comment, which ends with carriage-return
code --start of one line comment, which ends with '--' symbols -- continue code