[wlatsome]

I have a gripe with the way EmEditor does syntax highlighting. It seems like the parser isn’t very intelligent and just finds a matching string regardless of CONTEXT. Notepad++ is much more intelligent. Here are two pictures to show you what I mean. Keywords, etc are syntaxed logically in notepad++ and not here. Notepad++ can determine user functions. I would like to see this changed because I think you have a decent text editor. If it is possible to change the matching behavior for highlighting I would appreciate an explanation. [syntax is Lua] [no, this isn’t an advertisement for notepad++]

Bizarre, unintelligent syntax highlighting in emeditor:
http://www.imageanon.com/static/678d1c48442bc6102dcc13c35bdbe1a6.png

Proper syntax highlighting in notepad++: Notice only print() by itself is highlighted:
http://www.imageanon.com/static/99c611bf7b376939abb747e546fb7839.png

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