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| Posted by
| Boxknife
(19 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Sun 23 Nov 2008 11:38 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I want to write a trigger that highlights everything between quotation marks. Right now I have a trigger set to fire on "*", but it only highlights the quotation marks themselves. I want the trigger to highlight everything in between, too.
How do I do that? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Sun 23 Nov 2008 11:49 PM (UTC) |
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| Posted by
| Boxknife
(19 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 12:53 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| <triggers>
<trigger
custom_colour="2"
enabled="y"
group="Highlighted Words"
ignore_case="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="\"*\""
regexp="y"
repeat="y"
sequence="90"
other_text_colour="silver"
>
</trigger>
</triggers>
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #3 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 02:45 AM (UTC) |
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| Change it to:
<triggers>
<trigger
custom_colour="2"
enabled="y"
group="Highlighted Words"
ignore_case="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="\".*\""
regexp="y"
repeat="y"
sequence="90"
other_text_colour="silver"
>
</trigger>
</triggers>
You need a dot before the *, because .* means "any number of anything". |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #4 on Mon 24 Nov 2008 04:36 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| You might also want to change from:
to:
The question mark makes the match "less greedy" which will make a difference if you have two lots of quoted things in a single line. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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