[plt-scheme] DrScheme online syntax highlighting

Sounds great!  Sorry for the dupe.  Awaiting syntax-color anxiously.

Daniel

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:33, Matthew Flatt wrote:
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> It appears that we've duplicated efforts, here.
> 
> At Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:15:43 -0500, Daniel Silva wrote:
> > By the way, I noticed that there is a syntax-color collection.  How does
> > that work?
> 
> Scott Owens has been working on syntax coloring on and off for the last
> few months --- especially "on" for the last couple of weeks. I thought
> this was widely known, but I guess we haven't publicized Scott's
> efforts well enough.
> 
> Scott's tool works on the whole buffer, and it builds on
> "parser-tools", so it's easily applied to different languages. It's
> fast, but it runs in the background just in case (so it works fine on,
> say, "mred.ss").
> 
> Unlike every other syntax-coloring tool I've used, Scott's tool doesn't
> misrepresent syntax. If it paints text string-green, then the text
> really is inside a string (with respect to the whole buffer). The
> colorer is based on a lexer that exactly matches MzScheme's read-level
> syntax. The tool also plays nicely with non-text syntax.
> 
> The main reason that Scott hasn't released his tool is that he's still
> refining it to replace the parenthesis matcher. (The old one is a
> pathological lier. :) There are also issues in cooperating with other
> tools that color program text. But it looks like it will be ready soon.
> 
> Matthew