Seperate styler from delimiter

[LPS100Official]

Hello, I’m writing a BBCode-esque Language to make Flight Rising descriptions easier to write, and so far it’s pretty solid - I’m able to fold columns and lists, and highlight different BBCode in different colors. Except there’s one minor problem and it’s I can’t fold indent.

I have each BBCode as delimiters by doing Open: [u [/u then Close: ] ] because it’s the… only way I managed to get the language to work the way I hoped to achieve, but because I have [i] [/i] under delimiters, trying to add [indent] [/indent] in folding is overwritten by [i] [/i] delimiter all because both start with [i. If I do Open: [ [ and Close: i] /i], it messes with everything, removing the [i] [/i] from the delimiters fixes it but I too want to hightlight [i] [/i]. And I have yet to figure out how to make the Operators work with the Keywords and Delimiters, I read the entire document and I still have no idea.

I was wondering how do I seperate them to allow [indent] [/indent] be foldable but also highlight [i] [/i]? Or better yet, if anyone has a better format/organization for the language to get what I hope to achieve work? Here’s the format and the delimiters, the ----- is under keywords as a non-prefix.

[PeterJones]

@LPS100Official

Delimiters are meant when you want the contents between a pair of tokens, along with those tokens, all syntax-highlighted the same color. So if you wanted all of [i]random text in here[/i] to be the same style, then your open delimiter would be [i] and your close delimiter would be [/i]. But since you seem to not want the stuff in between to be colored/styled, just the tags themselves, then I would say “don’t use delimiters for those”. You would just make [i] and [/i] as keywords

About the only one, in your examples, that would make sense as a delimiter would be [url as the open and ] as the close, because you want [url=blahblahblah] to all be the same styling.

BTW: the User Defined Language Repository already has a BB Code UDL: you might want to look at how they did it

[LPS100Official]

@PeterJones Ohhh, that’s why that’d happen, makes so much sense now. And the other BB Code xlm helped out on a few things, thank you very much! :D