Package Internals

abstract type AbstractLexer

Represents a source code lexer used to tokenise text.

abstract type AbstractTheme

Represents a colour scheme used to highlight tokenised source code.

struct RGB

Represents a single RGB colour value that can be 'active' or 'inactive'.

struct Style

An internal type used to track colour scheme definition information such as foreground and background colours as well as bold, italic, and underlining.

struct Theme

Represents a "compiled" colour scheme.

Convert a three digit hex string to a 3-tuple of UInt8s.

Convert a six digit hex string to a 3-tuple of UInt8s.

words(vec; prefix, suffix)

Build a regular expression from a vector of strings. Useful for keyword lists.

The keyword arguments prefix and suffix can be used to add patterns before and after the main match group.

Examples

julia> import Highlights.Lexers: words

julia> words(["if", "else"])
r"(if|else)"

A utility string macro to avoid having to escape strings used to build a regular expression.