Eclipse keyword highlighting in in my own text editor

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Published on 2012-10-12T21:33:11Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 21:36 UTC
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I made a simple text editor in eclipse to which I added some simple WordRule based syntax highlighting to highlight the language keywords. The problem is that when a keyword is part of an identifier (eg. "import" is part of "extra_import"), then "import" is highlighted in "extra_import". How can I stop eclipse to highlight a a keyword if it is only a sub string of another string?

Anlther question; is there a regular expression based IRule?

What is the purpose of WhitespaceRule? White spaces are usually not highlighted.

Thaks

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