Re: Own programming language mode - syntax highlighting

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenko@bifit.com.ua>]

On 14.09.2010 13:29, Gary wrote:
> Following Xah Lee's excellent tutorial, I have been able to get the
> basics done - syntax highlighting, indentation, and so on. What I am
> missing is a small part of the syntax highlighting related to variables.
>
> Declarations work fine - for example
> int x = 0
> is correctly highlighted. What I can't work out how to do is to
> highlight declared variables in the rest of the code, for example when I
> later use x such as
> x = x+1
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? Ideally I'd like to only highlight those
> variables I have really declared, not something that just looks like it
> *might* be a variable, so I can see immediately if I've made a mistake
> in my coding or typing.
>
As I know this is hard task for Emacs.

Code from CEDET  can understand syntax of file content based on
grammar description:

http://cedet.sourceforge.net/languagesupport.shtml

Nxml mode parse RelaX NG schema to find allowed tags and attributes
in XML files.

I also would like hear that done in this field for Emacs.