Would you mind reiterating the colors? They differ a lot from the default NetBeans style. I think it would be good to have a look at the HTML/JS/CSS combination. For that case JS + CSS are highlighted mostly using default colors and less extreme where custom definitions are required, the embedding is highlighted using a background-color:

Would you mind reiterating the colors? They differ a lot from the default NetBeans style. I think it would be good to have a look at the HTML/JS/CSS combination. For that case JS + CSS are highlighted mostly using default colors and less extreme where custom definitions are required, the embedding is highlighted using a background-color:

It seems that the embedding coloring is too good for the java code.
The background color is not kept.

I've tried to use colors used in existing languages.
With the blue theme, I'm not sure if for the regex expression I should use the approach of antlr, to use string color for chars and different color for the brackets and operators ?

For the background color problem please have a look here:

matthiasblaesing@6f42780

That commit transfers the idea from HTML to jflex.

For the background color problem please have a look here:

matthiasblaesing@6f42780

That commit transfers the idea from HTML to jflex.

I've also tested with Semantic Analyzer using a custom attribute set. And the highlight refresh seems more "fluent".

Do you think it would be enough ? : a8e7b40

is the java cluster the right place for this module? The new module would have to be hooked into CI too (main.yaml).

is the java cluster the right place for this module? The new module would have to be hooked into CI too (main.yaml).

I think it can be considered suitable under java, as it compiles code to java, and antlr is in the same namespace.
But if there are other suggestion, why not. Maybe contrib or ide folder ?
I'm thinking to apply the same module location for a possible cup file support.

I will include the module into main.yaml.

I've also tested with Semantic Analyzer using a custom attribute set. And the highlight refresh seems more "fluent".

Do you think it would be enough ? : a8e7b40

That is a good idea. Thank you!

Great work, really. I would suggest to see this module in the ide cluster. Only due to java generated code doesn't mean it belongs to it. We have go, hcl, toml and yaml inside the ide cluster with language as a prefix too. I already talked to @lkishalmi and he would be also fine to more antlr to another place. It is just for a new language.

Great work, really. I would suggest to see this module in the ide cluster. Only due to java generated code doesn't mean it belongs to it. We have go, hcl, toml and yaml inside the ide cluster with language as a prefix too. I already talked to @lkishalmi and he would be also fine to more antlr to another place. It is just for a new language.

Ok, if there is this direction, I can move it into ide folder.
I also have a work in progress .env file support, so I think it can be located into ide folder too.

I need to remove the java dependency library.

Problems found with autoloads Problems found for module org.netbeans.modules.languages.jflex: [The module named org.netbeans.modules.java.lexer/1 was needed and not found.]

@Chris2011 @mbien anything more you want to request? Else I think this should go in.

@haidubogdan thanks for implementation. @mbien @Chris2011 thanks for review!

Thank you!

With pleasure, thank you also for your suggestions.
I hope I will have time to add more features to the jflex module.

@haidubogdan no hurry, but could you take a look at this ordering warning?

WARNING [org.openide.filesystems.Ordering]: Not all children in Templates/ marked with the position attribute: [Grammar], but some are: [JFX@0, JWS@0, Licenses@0, NetBeansModuleDevelopment-files@0, Privileged@0, Project@0, Recent@0, Services@0, Scripting@20, NetBeansModuleDevelopment@200, JSP_Servlet@600, JSF@700, Bean_Validation@701, OSGi@723, SpringFramework@825, J2EE@860, CDI@876, Classes@900, javafx@909, J2SEModule@999, GUIForms@1000, Beans@1052, AWTForms@1100, UnitTests@1200, SeleniumTests@1210, Html5Tests@1211, cpplite@1250, Micronaut@1280, Persistence@1300, Groovy@1350, WebServices@1500, ClientSide@1610, XML@1700, PayaraResources@1750, SunResources@1800, WebLogicResources@1850, Other@2100, Properties@2900, SaaSServices@3000]

Grammar is currently the first item on the new file dialog which is probably a bit high given that it is a less common file type.

Since it is about the folder, you probably will have to add it to the layer like:

I fixed most of those warnings recently via #8916 - the log line will now also show the positions behind the @ to make it easier to pick a value. We should keep an eye on layer positions since those are easy to forget while adding new features.

@mbien .
Yes, it should have a lower priority. I will prepare a commit at the start of the next werk.