#4226
Vlad
Member

I want to have some regular expression that colors text according to it’s rules but I also want to have some specific words, that happen to be matched by the regular expression, to have different colors.

You can define “specific words, that happen to be matched by the regular expression” as regex words and put them after the regular expression that matches them. I once tried that with a Python syntax file that has >200 keywords. If they are all defined as regex, there is a noticeable screen redrawing, but the editor is still usable, which shows that the colorizer is extremely efficient.

I agree that it would be much more useful if the non-regex keywords were colorized _after_ regex keywords.