Chachereau Nicolas:
One thing I'd like to see is an OnChange event. I think I saw something similar mentioned in the interface, but afaik it is not implemented for Lua.
Scintilla's SCN_MODIFIED notification occurs very frequently: in a Replace All operation it may be called multiple times for each replace. Running a Lua function on each SCN_MODIFIED may be quite slow. Even checking whether there is a Lua OnChange function may be too slow.
A use case would be a script for HTML editing that updates the closing tag whevener the starting tag changes. I wrote this in Lua, and try to detect changes with the OnChar event. It works quite well, but it isn't perfect. For example, you might mistype something, say you want to change a <p> into a <div>, and you type 'divb' while overwriting the 'p'. My script will update the closing tag to be </divb>. You then press backspace to delete the 'b', but my script can't detect it and can't update the closing tag. (The workaround is to do backspace twice and type the 'v' again).
You can't change the document text inside a SCN_MODIFIED notification: you would have to arrange for something to be called later to perform the change. That then would need an OnIdle or OnDeferred or similar function for Lua. Simplest way to achieve your feature is to bind the backspace key to your own function. Neil _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
