On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I'm new user of Qt Creator, so please forgive me if the question here is > naive > -- I have tried searching around for an answer without really finding > anything > definitive. > > How can one go about adding support for new languages to Qt Creator? From > what > I have seen there is a fairly substantial collection of syntax highlighting > rulesets (all derived from Kate?), but these don't necessarily correspond > to > support for things like auto-indentation and obviously don't offer support > for > build or debugging tools. > > The language I'm particularly interested in adding support for is D > <http://dlang.org>. There is already syntax support in place with a d.xml > that's taken from Kate (and dates from about 2 years ago). I'd like to be > able > to extend that with auto-indentation (and if possible autocompletion) > support, > and to be able to add support for compiling and debugging D (it should be > possible to do this with GDB and LLDB). > > I know from the D language forums that about 3 years ago there was some > interest > in adding D support to Qt Creator, but so far as I can see this didn't go > beyond > the syntax highlighting file. > > Qt Creator makes a great candidate for a light, fast and effective > cross-platform IDE which doesn't carry a huge baggage of dependencies, so > I'd > really like to have good D support in it. Any advice on how to go about > doing > this would be really appreciated. > > Thanks and best wishes, > > -- Joe > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > A good starting point might be the PythonEditor plugin. It was written as an educational (yet functional) plugin for an officially unsupported language. It has some bugs (auto-indentation was awful the last time I've checked), but you can start there. - Orgad
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