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How JOE syntax highlighting works
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*from [c.jsf](http://joe-editor.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/joe-editor/joe-editor/file/tip/syntax/c.jsf.in),
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slightly modified*
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A (deterministic) state machine which performs lexical analysis of C.
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(This is the "assembly language" of syntax highlighting. A separate
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program could be used to convert a regular expression NFA syntax into this
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format).
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Each state begins with:
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:<name> <color-name>
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\<name\> is the state's name.
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\<color-name\> is the color used for characters eaten by the state
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(really a symbol for a user definable color).
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The first state defined is the initial state.
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Within a state, define transitions (jumps) to other states. Each
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jump has the form:
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<character-list> <target-state-name> [<option>s]
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There are three ways to specify \<character-list\>s, either * for any
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character not otherwise specified, & to match the character in the
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delimiter match buffer or a literal list of characters within quotes
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(ranges and escape sequences allowed). When the next character matches
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any in the list, a jump to the target-state is taken and the character is
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eaten (we advance to the next character of the file to be colored).
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The * transition should be the first transition specified in the state.
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There are several options:
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* __noeat__ - Do not eat the character, instead feed it to the next state
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(this tends to make the states smaller, but be careful: you
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can make infinite loops). 'noeat' implies 'recolor=-1'.
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* __recolor=-N__ - Recolor the past N characters with the color of the
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target-state. For example once /* is recognized as the
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start of C comment, you want to color the /* with the C
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comment color with recolor=-2.
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* __mark__ - Mark beginning of a region with current position.
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* __markend__ - Mark end of region.
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* __recolormark__ - Recolor all of the characters in the marked region with
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the color of the target-state. If markend is not given,
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all of the characters up to the current position are recolored.
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Note that the marked region can not cross line boundaries and
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must be on the same line as recolormark.
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* __buffer__ - Start copying characters to a string buffer, beginning with this
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one (it's ok to not terminate buffering with a matching
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'strings' option- the buffer is limited to leading 23
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characters).
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* __save_c__ - Save character in delimiter match buffer.
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* __save_s__ - Copy string buffer to delimiter match buffer.
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* __strings__ - A list of strings follows. If the buffer matches any of the
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given strings, a jump to the target-state in the string list
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is taken instead of the normal jump.
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* __istrings__ - Same as strings, but case is ignored.
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Note: strings and istrings should be the last option on the
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line. They cause any options which follow them to be ignored.
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* __hold__ - Stop buffering string- a future 'strings' or 'istrings' will
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look at contents of buffer at this point. Useful for distinguishing
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commands and function calls in some languages 'write 7' is a command
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'write (' is a function call- hold lets us stop at the space and delay
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the string lookup until the ( or 7.
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The format of the string list is:
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"string" <target-state> [<options>s]
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"string" <target-state> [<options>s]
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"&" <target-state> [<options>s] # matches contents of delimiter match buffer
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done
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(all of the options above are allowed except "strings", "istrings" and "noeat". noeat is
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always implied after a matched string).
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Weirdness: only states have colors, not transitions. This means that you
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sometimes have to make dummy states with
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* <next-state> noeat
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just to get a color specification.
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Delimiter match buffer is for perl and shell: a regex in perl can be s<..>(...)
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and in shell you can say: <<EOS ....... EOS
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New feature: subroutines
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------------------------
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Highlighter state machines can now make subroutine calls. This works by
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template instantiation: the called state machine is included in your
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current state machine, but is modified so that the return address points
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to the called. There is still no run-time stack (the state is represented
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as a single integer plus the saved delimiter string).
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Recursion is allowed, but is self limited to 5 levels.
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To call a subroutine, use the 'call' option:
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"\"" fred call=string(dquote)
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The subroutine called 'string' is called and the jump to 'fred' is
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ignored. The 'dquote' option is passed to the subroutine.
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The subroutine itself returns to the caller like this:
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"\"" whatever return
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If we're in a subroutine, the return is made. Otherwise the jump
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to 'whatever' is made.
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There are several ways of delimiting subroutines which show up in how it
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is called. Here are the options:
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* __call=string()__ - A file called string.jsf is the subroutine.
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The entire file is the subroutine. The starting
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point is the first state in the file.
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* __call=library.string()__ - A file called library.jsf has the subroutine.
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The subroutine within the file is called string.
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* __call=.string()__ - There is a subroutine called string in the current file.
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When a subroutine is within a file, but is not the whole file, it is delimited
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as follows:
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.subr string
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. . . states for string subroutine . . .
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.end
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Option flags can be passed to subroutines which control preprocessor-like
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directives. For example:
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.ifdef dquote
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"\"" idle return
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.endif
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.ifdef squote
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"'" idle return
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.endif
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.else if also available. .ifdefs can be nested.
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Obsolete feature: sync lines
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----------------------------
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the sync lines specification no longer matter. We now always parse
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from the beginning of the file. Here is the old description:
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Define no. sync lines
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You can say:
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* '-200' means 200 lines
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* '-' means always start parsing from beginning of file when we lose sync
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if nothing is specified, the default is -50
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Colors and attributes
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---------------------
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Define colors and attributes. Give a list of attributes, one
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background color and one foreground color (default is used if
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color is left out).
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Attributes:
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bold inverse blink dim underline
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Standard colors:
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Foreground:
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white cyan magenta blue yellow green red black
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Background:
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bg_white bg_cyan bg_magenta bg_blue bg_yellow bg_green bg_red bg_black
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For 16 color and 256 color xterms: "export TERM=xterm-16color", these
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brighter than normal colors are available:
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> Note that you need an xterm which was compiled to support 16 or 256 colors
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> and a matching termcap/terminfo entry for it.
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Foreground:
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WHITE CYAN MAGENTA BLUE YELLOW GREEN RED BLACK
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Background:
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bg_WHITE bg_CYAN bg_MAGENTA bg_BLUE bg_YELLOW bg_GREEN bg_RED bg_BLACK
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For 256 color xterm: "export TERM=xterm-256color", these become available:
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> Note that you need an xterm which was compiled to support 256 colors and a
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> matching termcap/terminfo entry for it.
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fg_RGB and bg_RGB, where R, G, and B range from 0 - 5. So: fg_500 is bright red.
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fg_NN and bg_NN give shades of grey, where the intensity, NN, ranges from 0 - 23.
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