in reply to Source editor w/highlighting for Perl 6 ?

There are syntax hilighting files for Vim and Emacs in util/ in the pugs repository.

For other editors you have to try to create your own syntax files, but it's not an easy task. Nothing but perl can parse Perl, and it's not that different for Perl 6.

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Re^2: Source editor w/highlighting for Perl 6 ?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2008 at 08:56 UTC
    <sigh>. I wish Source Insight had an open interface for supporting more languages. It has some user-defined language ability, but based on simple regex, and using a broken and limited regex engine.

    I was hoping there was something for the Scintilla editing engine.

    —John
    in Allen, Texas (Dallas metroplex)

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      You might want to have a look at nedit. It has reasonably powerful syntax highlighting based on what seem to be Perl regexen. IIRC, features like look-arounds are supported. I've not tried to set up highlighting for a new language but I would have thought it was possible.

      Cheers,

      JohnGG

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