> Any highlighter must recognize the syntactic structure of its target language and work like a parser, that is, not like a tokenizer. You have to "push" someth

> Any highlighter must recognize the syntactic structure of its target language and work like a parser, that is, not like a tokenizer. You have to "push" something to the stack, if you know what I mean. How often does syntax matter in "syntax highlighting"? Most highlighters I've used don't even try to recognise syntactic structure. > To give a bad, but intuitive example, if a highlighter assigned "gray" to every "=" character it comes across, it would not be able to highlight the same characters inside a quotation mark. The problem with this example is that strings are a single token.