Slick V3.3 manual Creating a Lexer Name and a, Statement Description, Mlckeywords= keyword keyword

Creating a Lexer Name and a
New VLX File
Statement	Description
	the line is a comment before determining the color
	coding of symbols in the line. When the checkfirst
	option is specified, start_symbol is limited to one
	character in length. leading specifies that symbol
	is considered a line comment only if it appears as
	the first non-blank character. Space or tab charac-
	ters are considered blanks. Currently, end_symbol
	may not be a valid identifier. lastchar specifies that
	end_symbol must appear as the last character on
	a line to terminate the comment. No more than two
	multi-line comments may be defined.
mlckeywords= [keyword ] [keyword ] ...	Defines keywords for the last mlcomment state-
	ment. When one of these keywords follows the
	start_symbol defined for the last mlcomment
	statement, the keyword color is used to color the
	comment instead of comment color. Keywords do
	not have to be valid identifiers. This statement is
	useful for tag languages like HTML. See the HTML
	definition in the file vslick.vlx for an example.
keywordattrs= [mlckeyword] [attribute ] [at-	Defines attributes for the mlckeyword specified
tribute ] ...	which belongs to the last mlcomment statement.
	Currently this statement only supports HTML syntax
	attributes and requires that the HTML style be spe-
	cified. For example, keywordattrs=SCRIPT LAN-
	GUAGE SRC
linecomment= [symbol ] [col col+	Defines a line comment. symbol defines the char-
start_col - end_col] [checkfirstleading]	acter(s) which start this line comment. If no column
	limits are specified, the remainder of the line is con-
	sidered a comment regardless of where symbol
	appears. A plus sign (+) after a column specifies an
	unlimited end_col. checkfirst specifies that the
	lexer should check if the line is a comment before
	determining the color coding of symbols in the line.
	When the checkfirst option is specified, symbol is
	limited to one character in length. If symbol is not
	specified, all characters will be ignored at or after
	the column specified (ex. linecoment=73+). This is
	useful for Fortran which requires that all characters
	at or after column 73 be ignored. leading specifies
	that symbol is considered a line comment only if it
	appears as the first non-blank character. Space or
	tab characters are considered blanks.

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