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Gedit syntax-highlighting with gtksourceview for backreferencing sub-patterns?


The following will highlight "timeout" on the second line but will not highlight it ever again. Does gtksourceview support some sort of backreference on the "sub-pattern" that will match all instances throughout the file ?

gtksourceview website manual

/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/c.lang

<context id="struct" style-ref="struct">
     <match>\bstruct\b\s\w+\s(\w+)</match>
          <include>
               <context sub-pattern="1" style-ref="structname"/>
          </include>
</context>
int ns;
struct timeval timeout;
timeout.tv_sec = 1;
timeout.tv_usec = 0;

setsockopt(ns, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, &timeout, sizeof(timeout));
setsockopt(ns, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &timeout, sizeof(timeout));

Solution

  • Apparently, the requested functionality is not supported at the moment.