Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques of fast, real-time highlighting of code snippets with low algorithmic complexity. The techniques are suitable to enable highlighting of code sections within relatively lightweight environments such as general-purpose word processors. Delimited ranges of characters within code are identified. Changes within delimited ranges are tracked using a sparse array. The use of a sparse array enables operations on the delimited range to be tracked at a low computational complexity. The highlighted color of a word is the color of its delimited range. The color highlighting maintains real-time synchronization with edits being made simultaneously on a document by collaborating developers. The overhead to define a language is kept low, such that highlighting can be provided without building knowledge of the entire syntax and grammar of the language into the code highlighting implementation.
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Recommended Citation
Aberbach, Tomer; Galante, Gregory George; Hariri, Behnoosh; and Ben Noon, Barak, "Language Agnostic Incremental Real-time Code Highlighting", Technical Disclosure Commons, (June 05, 2024)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7077