monaco editor - New tokens to existing language

Question

I am using Monaco editor in our project and I have issue I am not able to overcome. At our scenario , user can add new words to the editor once he clicks on a button, for example, user has editor with language javascript and he now wants to add new word 'workTest', it should be highlighted in custom color. How do I add new tokens to the editor with highlighted colors? I already have my 'newTheme' with rules {token: 'asToken', foreground: 'FFA500', fontStyle: 'bold'} How do I add the tokens to an existing language? I tried everything and nothing works.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65922242/new-tokens-to-existing-language

Answer 1

The tokenization is done using a dynamic tokenizer (see the Monarch declarative syntax highlighter documentation). All keywords are specified in JS code, via a Regex rule.

You could create your own tokenizer and update that with each new keyword.