Paul Ishenin wrote:
17.02.2010 16:26, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Note the file sizes. 115K for Pascal syntax highlighting, 79K for SQL,
44K
for CSS, 38K for XML etc. This is crazy!!! I couldn't find any other
editor (that also supports syntax highlighting) with such large files.
Also
most other editors support external config files loaded at runtime.
Do you need a fast syntax highlighter with code folding support in a big
unit or small unit with slow working highlighter which does not supports
all the pascal syntax and no special features?
This is the key. Recently ( In the last 12 months anyway ) I've written a fairly complex highlighter
for a project I've been working on. The complexity of the highlighter mechanism in SynEdit really
seems to be in the extra features (like hierarchical folding, highlighting block pairs ... ) and speed.
Once you get your head around it, it all makes sense, but it can be a bit of a bear to get your head
around from scratch.
The highlighter does much more than simply highlight words and can be incredibly powerful if you
want to make it so.
Brad
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