Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I installed jEdit yesterday. It supports a mammoth 177 different
syntax highlighter styles for all types of source code, text files
like xml/html/css, config files etc. They also use a combination of
regex and various code rules.
Hi,
as noted, regex can't parse any
On 27 May 2010 02:33, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Multi-line comments, or even worse: nested comments, require to pre-scan an
file, before the highlighter can be used.
I don't think this is true. I briefly looked at the jEdit code that
manages the syntax highlighting, and it doesn't do
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:47:02PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
BTW:
I tried all the examples listed on this page (which FPC doesn't
support in most cases), and jEdit formatted then without problems -
perfectly, just like the website shows. Yes, nested types, nested
classes etc.. Lazarus
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Multi-line comments, or even worse: nested comments, require to pre-scan an
file, before the highlighter can be used.
I don't think this is true. I briefly looked at the jEdit code that
manages the syntax highlighting, and it doesn't do multiple passes
over the
On 27 May 2010 11:42, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Multi-line comments, or even worse: nested comments, require to pre-scan
an
file, before the highlighter can be used.
I don't think this is true. I briefly looked at the jEdit code that
manages the syntax highlighting, and it doesn't do
On 25 May 2010 20:23, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Standard regex can't deal with nested structures like nesting of comments.
OK. Do you know of some complex code maybe included in Lazarus or FPC
that I could use as sample code to test?
Since you already identified several editors with support
On 25 May 2010 20:01, Marcos Douglas wrote:
Do you know TextAdept?
No I don't, but thanks for the link. I'll take a look.
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2010/5/25 Zaher Dirkey :
I beleave regex is not a good choice.
If you compare the speed you will find SynEdit is more faster.
Again, I think this is more related to implementation details. Some
editors do it great, some others don't. Some of the editors I looked
at that uses regular expressions
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
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On 25 May 2010 20:23, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Standard regex can't deal with nested structures like nesting of comments.
OK. Do you know of some complex code maybe included in Lazarus or FPC
But are they complete/correct ? :-) I know that many editors aren't. They
support a basic easy subset and that is it. Stuff like using directive
names as variables where allowed, support for to escape keywords etc.
A nice test is also
const
eof = ^Z;
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Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
But are they complete/correct ? :-) I know that many editors aren't. They
support a basic easy subset and that is it. Stuff like using directive
names as variables where allowed, support for to escape keywords etc.
A nice test is also
const
eof = ^Z;
.. which
Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
But are they complete/correct ? :-) I know that many editors aren't. They
support a basic easy subset and that is it. Stuff like using directive
names as variables where allowed, support for to escape keywords etc.
A nice test is also
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com
wrote:
2010/5/25 Zaher Dirkey :
I beleave regex is not a good choice.
If you compare the speed you will find SynEdit is more faster.
Again, I think this is more related to implementation details. Some
editors do
On 26/05/2010 12:06, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
2010/5/26 Zaher Dirkey :
I meant the mechanism of SynEdit not SynEdit it self, Let us call Line
Feeding Highlighting, LFH if you like :P
RegEx used on whale file in memory, but that LFH do it line by line, you can
generate the colored and syntax
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 12:59:39 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I tested: jEdit, gEdit, MSEide, Lazarus IDE and mcedit. Only Lazarus
IDE syntax highlighted the above code as one single block of commented
code.
MSEide has another definition file (pascal2.sdef) which handles nested
comments. The
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
2010/5/26 Zaher Dirkey :
I meant the mechanism of SynEdit not SynEdit it self, Let us call Line
Feeding Highlighting, LFH if you like :P
LFH normally comes with a line state (some booleans or counters). Same
as synedit. But synedit
On 26 May 2010 13:19, Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote:
Thanks for the SynEdit implementation details.
try MacOsAll.pp (30 lines) in your egex highlighter
You guys don't listen! :-)
MacOSAll.pp was split some time ago into multiple include files. No
problems, I checked out an older
Zitat von Martin Schreiber fp...@bluewin.ch:
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 12:59:39 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
I tested: jEdit, gEdit, MSEide, Lazarus IDE and mcedit. Only Lazarus
IDE syntax highlighted the above code as one single block of commented
code.
MSEide has another definition file
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 14:27:13 Mattias Gärtner wrote:
MSEide has another definition file (pascal2.sdef) which handles nested
comments. The default is pascal.sdef for Delphi compatibility.
Why not choose the right highlighter automatically by parsing the mode
directive and the compiler
On 26/05/2010 13:24, Mattias Gärtner wrote:
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
2010/5/26 Zaher Dirkey :
I meant the mechanism of SynEdit not SynEdit it self, Let us call Line
Feeding Highlighting, LFH if you like :P
LFH normally comes with a line state (some booleans or
2010/5/26 Mattias Gärtner :
line by line basis, but I doubt that is the best way of doing it,
because it will also produce problems with things like comment blocks.
AFAIK they do. Because regex can not count nor save states, you need a state
machine, which selects which set of regex to use.
Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com:
[...]
try MacOsAll.pp (30 lines) in your egex highlighter
You guys don't listen! :-)
MacOSAll.pp was split some time ago into multiple include files. No
problems, I checked out an older version which was 10MB in size
(277,380 lines of
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
and that will produce a nice compiler warning (and for good
reason, and why I, and none of my team will ever use that format).
It's basic Pascal 101! :-)
Not really, since TP didn't even supported it.
2010/5/26 Mattias Gärtner :
This is a fake. But a nice one. See below.
I still don't understand why you say it's fake? I see syntax
highlighter code, so it works.
Indeed. For a regex highlighter jedit is very fast.
Just replace all (* and *) with { } in macosall.pp.
Then add a (* at the
On 26 May 2010 15:10, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Not really, since TP didn't even supported it.
I honestly can't say, except that I know about (* and { style
formatting for very long and somewhere in that time I was taught never
to nest two of the same comment styles, always alternate then.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:47:02PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
where regex will have more problems than other principles, namely nested
constructs.
Nested if statements, nested procedures, nested comments (the correct
style) all work fine with most regex highlighters, so I really don't
On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:24:33 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/5/26 Mattias Gärtner :
This is a fake. But a nice one. See below.
I still don't understand why you say it's fake? I see syntax
highlighter code, so it works.
I apologize.
Apparently the machine
On 26/05/2010 19:54, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
Apparently it uses some kind of line state too and only updates
till the visible area. Maybe synedit can do the same. At the moment
syndit updates everything too often.
It's been on my todo for a long time (and some prep work, like moving
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:09:47 +0100
Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote:
On 26/05/2010 19:54, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
Apparently it uses some kind of line state too and only updates
till the visible area. Maybe synedit can do the same. At the moment
syndit updates everything too often.
On 26/05/2010 20:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:09:47 +0100
Martinlaza...@mfriebe.de wrote:
On 26/05/2010 19:54, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
Apparently it uses some kind of line state too and only updates
till the visible area. Maybe synedit can do the same. At the
On 26/05/2010 20:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:09:47 +0100
Martinlaza...@mfriebe.de wrote:
On 26/05/2010 19:54, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
Apparently it uses some kind of line state too and only updates
till the visible area. Maybe synedit can do the same. At the
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:41:39 +0100
Martin laza...@mfriebe.de wrote:
On 26/05/2010 20:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:09:47 +0100
Martinlaza...@mfriebe.de wrote:
On 26/05/2010 19:54, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
Apparently it uses some kind of line state too
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
THE SLOWNESS YOU GUYS ARE MENTIONING IS BASED ON AN CRAP IMPLEMENTATION.
Well, the goal has shifted away from only *syntax* highlighting.
I don't know what editor you guys used to test syntax highlighting,
but clearly it was a crap editor. jEdit being a Java
Hi,
Does anybody know of a website or article I can read about how to
integrate regular expressions with an editor to end up with a editor
that can handle syntax highlighting. It doesn't need to be specific to
Object Pascal (that would be too easy and ideal). ;-)
For example, mcedit (from
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 02:34:15PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
And yes I was told before that using regex for syntax highlighting is
slow, but I think that's a matter of implementation. The editors I
have seen and used are more that fast enough even on large files. The
huge benefit of
On 25 May 2010 14:38, Marco van de Voort wrote:
But the main problem IMHO is that regex is not suited to highlight many
languages that require correct detection of matching tokens, like the Pascal
nested comments.
mcedit (editor part of Midnight Commander) supports 68 different file
formats
Hi Graeme,
Have you seen Colorer-take5 on the following URL
http://colorer.sourceforge.net/ ?
It's cited in the tutorial you pointed at
http://www.catch22.net/tuts/neatpad/18 .
João Marcelo
2010/5/25 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com
Hi,
Does anybody know of a website or article I
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
Does anybody know of a website or article I can read about how to
integrate regular expressions with an editor to end up with a editor
that can handle syntax highlighting. It doesn't need to be specific to
Object Pascal (that would be too easy and ideal). ;-)
I
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know of a website or article I can read about how to
integrate regular expressions with an editor to end up with a editor
that can handle syntax highlighting. It doesn't need to be specific to
I beleave regex is not a good choice.
If you compare the speed you will find SynEdit is more faster.
I import it to make my syntax for my site using PHP i found my Highlighter
is more faster (10 time) than the famous one (Geshi) that use the regex.
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:14:01PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
syntax definition files to get the Object Pascal syntax correct for
Free Pascal specific features I use and for my code. So this is
clearly not so much of a problem and regex is sufficiently flexible
for most (if not all)
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