Re: Are Lua's own lexer/parser suitable for writing a syntax highlighter?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I was under the impression that the parser just gives me more
> information about the file, so that I can color things more
> specifically, e.g. it may recognize an identifier as being a local
> variable or a global, so I can color them differently.

Oh, right, you need a parser for that. But you may be able to hook into
the parser to get this info. See
	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-06/msg00091.html
 
> Would creating a new private lua_State for my syntax-highlighter's be
> a reasonable way to work around this?

No. You'd have to use a patched Lua and this will affect all Lua programs
that you load. You really need to turn off the token filter globally.