Interface SyntaxHighlighter

All Known Implementing Classes:
Tokenizer
public interface SyntaxHighlighter
A pluggable incremental syntax highlighter for CodeEditor. Implementations tokenize one line at a time and return an opaque integer state that is passed to the next line. Implementations should be stateless and thread-safe because one registered instance may serve multiple editors.

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    SyntaxHighlightResult
    tokenize(String line, int startState)
    Highlights a line, using startState from the preceding line.

  • Method Details