[Mono-dev] Using Mono.CSharp in a syntax highlighting engine

[Rafael Teixeira]

Why don't you look inside/reuse MonoDevelop's C# Syntax-Highlighter?

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM, David Mitchell <dmitchell at logos.com> wrote:
> A couple weeks ago, I started playing around with Mono.CSharp to see if I
> could get enough information from it to hook it up to a syntax highlighter.
> In order to do so, I would need to be able to get a mapping of ranges of
> characters to lexical values (keyword, type name, etc.). After some poking
> around, I was finally able to get a very limited amount of information
> (mostly with respect to the namespaces found in a file), but not nearly
> enough to do what I want.
> Was this an anticipated use of Mono.CSharp? Does anyone have any pointers
> for how to use it in this manner?
> Thanks,
> — Dave
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