On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Steffen Mueller <smuel...@cpan.org> wrote: > Hi Leandro, > > On 02/05/2011 06:36 PM, Leandro Hermida wrote: >> Just wondering if there is a feature roadmap for Padre, particularly >> on syntax highlighting capabilities? I really love the IDE except for >> the syntax highlighting capabilities... Scintilla really sucks and and >> you are always forced to revert to it when you file is anything bigger >> than a tiny amount of code or is there a workaround to force it to use >> the much better Kate or PPIx in all cases? > > This is quite a difficult problem to solve. All known alternatives for > syntax highlighting have some serious downsides: > > - Scintilla isn't great at parsing perl. Particularly, the version we > have access to doesn't recognize a lot of features from recent versions > of perl. This would be somewhat improved if the most recent versions of > Scintilla were available through Wx.
Ahmad Zawawi mentioned recently that he is trying to work on a Scintilla -> Perl integration that will bring us the latest version of Scintilla. That would certainly improve the situation by closing a 4 years gap. > Personally, I'm a vim user and must say that vim syntax highlighting for > Perl isn't the worst. But extracting such functionality from a project > such as vim is probably prohibitive. > > If I remember correctly, the Kate highlighter is huge amounts of > auto-generated Perl code from some templates taken from Kate. I am not > sure if the original generator code is still available and/or > maintained, but I do wonder whether generating C code from the templates > and then compiling that as an XS module would make the Kate highlighter > fast enough to be used in place of Scintilla? > > Alas, I won't be able tackle this, but since I thought about it some way > back, I figured sharing my thoughts might help jump start somebody > else's efforts. That's a very good idea. Now we only need someone to implement it :) regards Gabor _______________________________________________ Padre-dev mailing list Padre-dev@perlide.org http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev
