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Make HighlightingRule extensible so rules aren't required to use Regex

Open GSonofNun opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Added IHighlightingRule so developers can implement custom rules that don't use a simple regex pattern. As part of this, I had to make a simple RuleMatch type to replace the uses of System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match instances as I needed a way for a custom implmentation to still return match results.

Here's an example of a custom IHighlightingRule I needed: https://gist.github.com/GSonofNun/f5a97b24bb9d57c06c723a7bc02940a0 This rule allows me to highlight delimiter separated values, giving a color to each column of values, and even lets me change the font weight and underline of certain lines. image

I think these changes greatly expands the scope of possibilities for HighlightingRules.

GSonofNun avatar May 09 '23 19:05 GSonofNun

Nice! Can this be used along with xshd files ?

goswinr avatar Mar 22 '24 13:03 goswinr