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Syntax keywords with space

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2001 3:53 pm
by Don
I'm creating a syntax file and some keywords are composed of a pair of words like
Blink Speed:
Key Press:
Data Type:

Is there a way to have the syntax file pair these together? They'll always end with a :

I didn't see any articles in the forum and the help files didn't seem to explain it.

Re: Syntax keywords with space

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2002 7:40 pm
by Steven
No, this is not possible.

When matching syntax, the program looks at each word and sees if any syntax word matches it. If there could be spaces, it would need to compare every combination of words which would be very slow.