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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Syntax highlighting
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:27:43 -0500
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On 02/29/2012 08:38 AM, ricoh51 wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need to make an editor with syntax highlighting. The lexer run as I
> want, but I do not know how to start th GUI.
> I have choose a JTextPane to do that, is this a good choice?
> Do I need to extend DocumentListener or DocumentFilter?
> Who can help me to start?
>
I believe I would start by looking at how others have approched the problem.
 From the first page of results of a web search with the key words 
swing+syntax+highlight+editor I get these open source projects:
RSyntaxTextArea, jEdit Syntax Package, JSyntaxPane, and a very old 
tutorial article from Sun, "Customizing a Text Editor".