[ToadLoadin]

Hi, I’m writing some little AHK scripts to help my daily work, so I’m tweaking around the ahk syntax highlight configs.

Since I want to highlight subroutine labels of ahk script, I tried this pattern:

^s*w+:(?=s*$|s*;.*$)

Which means words and a colon follows some space or right at the beginning of the line.

The “(?=s*$|s*;.*$)” part is a positive lookahead search, which means I want to have it could be followed by spaces or a line comment (; blah blah…), but it does not work as I expected, it can only be followed by spaces, once there is some comment followed, the highlight goes off.

Could anybody give me some hints how to correct it? :-)

[Stefan]

Don’t know. Seems to work for me.

EmEditor 11.0.5, 32-bit, Boost 1.47

What’s the differences?

[ToadLoadin]

囧 Quite weired…

I have exactly the same version.

[ToadLoadin]

EmEditor v11.0.5 (32bit)

under Win7 32bit, simplified Chinese…

[ToadLoadin]

Well, I got it.

It’s because there is a line comment setting which starts with the character “;”.

While the line comment setting turns off, the regex highlight works fine.

Hi Yutaka, is this a bug?

[Yutaka Emura]

Hi ToadLoadin,

Currently, this is the specification. If the Line Comment character appear in the middle of a line, then the highlight will be turn off. This is because of optimization.

Thank you,

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