c# syntax lexer

[bjornbouetsmith]

Improve c# syntax lexer?

Expand number of classes used for lexer?

Hi,
It seems like the syntaxt lexer for c# is extremely primitive compared to other languages.

i.e.

Class names, variable names, methods, properties etc. all gets the same css class.

They all end up using the "n" class - which makes it impossible to make the syntaxt look like anything "real"

I know it might not be easy to expand the lexer since its all regular expressions it seems like, but if just a couple of the above could be fixed it would make everything look so much better

Just look at this example using "vs" chroma style - its pretty boring - missing colors for Type name etc. Just adding a color for the type would improve everything much

Compared to how it looks inside Visual Studio:

And "source" of the above example:

[rogeralsing]

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I see the same issue, I use code examples of both Go and C# on my site. and the C# version seems incomplete.

It's basically just keywords highlighted, no semantics.

C# vs Go seen here

[k12ish]

I've encountered a similar problem before with Go #390, It appears that Chroma does not use semantics to highlight types.

Fixing this is definitely a priority.