In terms of highlighting

strings enclosed by quotation marks takes precedence over highlighted words.
So if a highlighted words is surrounded by quotes it will loose the look of a highlighted word.

Is there anyway to keep the highlighted words even if they are surrounded by quotes?

thanks

Steven

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Steven

Steven,

The only way I can think of is to disable the highlight of quoted strings.

Thanks,

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Yutaka Emura
Developer of EmEditor
http://www.emeditor.com/

I would think a custom field, for blocking quote hilighting might work.
Quote:
Otherwise you have to disable quote hilighting.

There's also a bit of a bug in that regard, when you have a custom highlighter and do something like:
RegExMatch(Foo, "\"test\"")

EmEditor thinks "\" is the start and end of a string, and \"" is the start/end of a string.

Possibly, as well:
Quote:

Quote: How ?

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Steven

Never mind, i see how to disable it.

CrashNburn,
thanks for your reply.

Can you explain what you mean, i am not sure .


What i did was disable quotes and added 2 highlighted regex words
\".+?\"
and then the other one I am working with.

this worked because it seems that it uses the later word to to override the earlier highlight word.

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Steven

I was talking about possible new features,
1) Allow a custom regex to be used to indicate when "" quote string hilighting shouldn't be done.

2) Allow a custom input field for notifying EmEditor what leading characters before a quotation-mark should indicate that the quotation-mark is part of a string (is escaped).
e.g, RegexMatch(Foo, "This is a \"string\" that has embedded quotes. The string hilighter shouldn't end after 'This is a' as the quote is escaped.")

Currently EmEditor only allows you to list a single character as an escape for a string (quote). In autohotkey for instance, I would need two. ` and \

O.K. CrashNBurn.

Thanks for your help

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Steven