On 2016-08-31 08:42 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 31 August 2016 at 11:27, Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> wrote:
On 2016-08-30 06:43 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
[...]
Having our own callback means one more indirection, and changing the
SciLexer to CONTAINER anyway, so I don't see much advantage just now.
With the `LexClang.so` dynamic lexer I made, dynamic lexers seemed not to
fit well (too isolated, too many assumptions that it's a simple dumb lexer
and not a semantic-based on, etc) . All I really wanted was a way to disable
Scintilla's lexer (ie. switch it to `SCLEX_CONTAINER`) without changing the
filetype in Geany, and without doing it behind Geany's back from the plugin.
Agree with Matthew.
The point of not using the standard Scintilla lexer [...]
I wouldn't even call it "standard" lexer. Though it conforms to the same
C++ interface as a few other modern, well-maintained lexers, AFAIK only
handful of Scintilla's lexers (ex. LexCpp) are actually able to compile
as dynamic libraries.
One of the few useful dynamic lexers I've ever seen is Scintillua[0] and
it actually makes some kind of sense to be a generic dynamic lexer here
since it can proxy for other lexers using a completely different
non-Scintilla mechanisms internally (ie. Lua and PEGs).
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
[0]: http://foicica.com/scintillua/
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