cullmann added a comment.
e.g. for the customization of coloring you want to present the list of all formats a highlighting has, including the included ones. (even if later the color of the included ones is not stored per including highlighting) Otherwise you are right, a global lookup is all one needs, which could be build on-the-fly in ktexteditor, too, if we don't want to have that in the syntax-highlighting framework, given the id's are unique. REPOSITORY R216 Syntax Highlighting REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D14451 To: dhaumann, cullmann, vkrause Cc: kwrite-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, michaelh, kevinapavew, ngraham, bruns, demsking, cullmann, sars, dhaumann