Kein-Hong Man:
It would be nice if there is a simple mechanism for extending existing lexers. Say, colour all wx* identifiers in a certain way, or add new keyword sets without needing to recompile. For long pieces of code with lots of long identifiers (GTK+ code for example), I for one would appreciate the improved readability.
Languages often have multiple sets of keywords for different contexts: C++ has identifier-like keywords and keywords in documentation comments. HTML has tags, attributes, and scripting language keywords. Its not just a case of having identifier-like keywords that can be expanded into multiple states. The static allocation of style values gets in the way of allowing extension in this manner. If your extended C++ lexer defines style 19 as an extra identifier keyword style then this will be broken when the base C++ lexer defines some new states. If you count down from maximum state for extended lexer styles then you will eventually clash with base lexer styles. There are also issues in how to write the base lexer to handle values outside its understood range. These are the sorts of issues that SinkWorld tries to address. Neil _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
