With this design, there should be no need to refresh syntax
highlighting for lines which are off-screen.

Thanks,

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Raul


On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> The primary reason is efficiency. Every change or scrolling in text
> will trigger a highlighting routine to refresh. If a file
> contains several thousand of lines, and if it takes several
> seconds to refresh, the editor would become un-usable.
>
> Пн, 26 дек 2016, Devon McCormick написал(а):
>> Is there a particular reason to do this with regex?  There are a couple of
>> essays about doing this in J like this one -
>> http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Parentheses_Matching - and my own
>> contribution:
>> http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Devon_McCormick/ArrayThinking/JConferenceTalk2014#Simplifying_Code_with_Array_Thinking
>> .
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I meant 'punctuation' instead of 'control word' for ) and NB.  .
>> >
>> > Henry Rich
>> >
>> >
>> > On 12/26/2016 2:25 PM, Henry Rich wrote:
>> >
>> >> The parenthesis and comment delimiter in J have the part of speech
>> >> 'control word'.
>> >>
>> >> I didn't mean readable in the usual 
>> >> why-can't-anybody-write-comments-any-more
>> >> sense, but as a reference to the Qt IDE's habit of treating quoted control
>> >> words as active, and giving the wrong font to everything that follows. 
>> >> Half
>> >> a line can get formatted as comments.  If you actually DO have lots of
>> >> comments, this is hard to sort out.
>> >>
>> >> Henry rich
>> >>
>> >> On 12/26/2016 1:42 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I'm not sure what you mean by "containing control words" but code
>> >>> readability issues are usually a call for better code.
>> >>>
>> >>> For this, perhaps (warning: lightly tested code):
>> >>>
>> >>> firstunmatched=:3 :0
>> >>>    q=. unquoted=. -.~:/\y=''''
>> >>>    c=. uncommented=. -. +./\ q * 'NB.' E. y
>> >>>    n=. parendepth=. +/\q*c*-/'()'=/y
>> >>>    if. 0 < {: n do.
>> >>>      (n i. _1) <. 1+1 i:~0 1 E. n
>> >>>    else.
>> >>>      n i. _1
>> >>>    end.
>> >>> )
>> >>>
>> >>> In other words: ignoring quoted and commented parenthesis, look for
>> >>> the first occurrence of either an unbalanced right parenthesis or an
>> >>> unbalanced left parenthesis.
>> >>>
>> >>> Let me know, though, if you see any flaws in this implementation.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>>
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