I am using textpad 4.7.1 with a lua syntax file.... print() and tostring() are apart of the lua language, so they should be highlighted... but, as you can see, I have my own functions set.print() and set.tostring() where those keywords are being highlighted and "set." isn't. The deal is, the whole function name shouldn't be syntax highlighted at all!
So, I want to change the way the syntax highlighting works so that it highlights keywords only when the proceeding character is a space.
so print() gets highlighted and set.print() doesn't [get half highlighted!]
Can someone tell me how to fix this? I checked the help file and tried a variety of things to no avail. Much thanks,
A possible work around could be to try adding set.print and set.tostring to Keywords 4 in the syntax file, and then change the Foreground color for Keywords 4 to black.
Yo Helios... don't you know your own editor? Have you actually used Textpad? Here's the solution [update your records]
After much angst [including trying other text editors as replacements], I figured out how to fix it in textpad. Under document classes -> lua [or whatever] -> syntax, there is a parameter for "Other characters in words: "... I added a period to this and now the syntax is highlighted as it should be.
This is good... I checked out a few other editors in the meantime and mostly exhibit this behavior but without workaround, so textpad gets points in this respect. [conText editor and notepad++ are 'intelligent' by default].......
Here's the solution [update your records]