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See the General topic with this same subject for additional background. I would like the ability to define the semi-colon as a character within the syntax definition file. The problem is that the semi-colon is the comment character for the definition files. Note also that this use is not documented ...

Yep, that's the writeup I saw. I didn't remember it being in the help files. Interesting to note that this whole discussion has been about the problems trying to use a semi-colon as it is interpreted as the start of comment in the syntax definition file but nowhere in the help does it even mention ...

Unfortunately, I need most of the other parts of the file. The CharStart/End does seem to work but I need that for actual character literals. The SingleCommentAlt also works but has the bad side effect of making the rest of the line a comment, even when it isn't. I would really like the double semi ...

I'm working in an assembly language which has the string ";;" as a special meaning at the end of a line. I'd like to highlight the double semi-colon but can't seem to get this to work except as part of a operator list. I'd like to color the semi-colons differently than other operators. The main ...