How to write syntax highlighting?

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Published on 2010-04-17T00:56:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 1:23 UTC
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I am embarking on some learning and I want to write my own syntax highlighting for files in C++.

Can anyone give me ideas on how to go about doing this?

To me it seems that when a file is opened: 1. it would need to be parsed and decided what type of source file it is. Trusting the extension might not be full-proof

  1. a way to know what keywords/commands apply to what language

  2. a way to decide what color each keyword/command gets

I want to do this on OS X, C++ or Objective-C

Can anyone provide pointers on how I might get started with this?

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