The MATCH_TYPE attribute is used by some of the
rules to control how the region matched by the rule will be
highlighted.
For example, when using a MARK_PREVIOUS rule to
highlight a function call of the form fcall(), the
following rule could be used:
<MARK_PREVIOUS TYPE="FUNCTION" MATCH_TYPE="OPERATOR">(</MARK_PREVIOUS>
This would cause fcall to be highlighted as
FUNCTION, and ( to be highlighted
as OPERATOR. In this case, to maintain bracket
matching working, a SEQ rule would have to be added
to match ) and mark it as
OPERATOR.
The MATCH_TYPE attribute value can be any of
the valid token types, or the following special values:
RULE: this is the default value. It
tells the syntax system to use the same token type as the TYPE
attribute of the rule. This is equivalent to
EXCLUDE_MATCH="FALSE" in 4.2 and earlier mode
files.
CONTEXT: using this value tells the
syntax system to mark the matched region using the default token
type for the current rule set. In 4.2 and earlier mode files,
this was specified by
EXCLUDE_MATCH="TRUE".