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> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a s

by davorb 9y ago

> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task... For a lot of modes, Emacs does this using regex.

jokoon 9y ago
Running a regex each time you type a character seems a little heavy to me... Regex'ing languages like HTML or C++ can be quite mind breaking... I think.