Wow, I wish I had asked you about this earlier. highlighting_is_code_style literally solved all my problems haha All the autotools research I did for launching python scripts and generating headers is for nothing 😅
Thanks, Asif On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 1:02 AM Lex Trotman via Devel <devel@lists.geany.org> wrote: > oops we got off the list > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 at 17:00 > Subject: Re: [Geany-Devel] Re: bracket colors plugin > To: Asif Aaron Amin <asifa...@utexas.edu> > > > > ... > > I'm just about ready to make a pull request (learning autotools took > longer than I'd like to admit 😅). > > > Well, you are ahead of me for autotools, I _refuse_ to learn it ;-P > > ... > > > > For my plugin, I'd like to ignore any brackets in strings, docstring, > comments, etc. > > ex) > > ... > > > > My naive approach was to hardcode the style numbers that correspond to > comments, strings, etc. and just ignore brackets with those styles. This > was fine for most C-like languages and Python (90% of what I use at my job) > but when I was checking with other languages this didn't work well and in > some languages most of the brackets would get ignored. > > > See `highlighting_is_comment_style()` `highlighting_is_string_style()` > and `highlighting_is_code_style()` which are all in the plugin API. > Hopefully that will make it simpler. > > Whilst these may be inaccurate for obscure/new languages, fixing them > will then improve all uses (and its the responsibility of folks using > the language IMO, neither you nor Geany devs can be expected to be > experts in all languages). > > Cheers > Lex > ... > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list -- devel@lists.geany.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.geany.org >
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