[Gambas-user] Need help with TextEditor

[Bruce Steers]

On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 19:07, Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 15/09/2021 à 12:31, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> > You need to study the gb.eval.highlight component.
> > http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.eval.highlight
> > <http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.eval.highlight>
> >
> > You can see how it's used in gambas syntax highlighting by studying the
> > TextEditorMode_Style classes in the gb.form.editor component
> >
> https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/tree/master/comp/src/gb.form.editor/.src
> > <
> https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/tree/master/comp/src/gb.form.editor/.src
> >
> >
> >
> > I made the TextEditorMode_Sh.class and it was a real head scratcher.
> >
>
> Yes, and it misses some shell syntaxes. :-)
>

does it?  darn and i thought i was almost perfect 🤔.   i compared it to a
few and i thought it did a better job than pluma :)
if only there was a way people who know better could do better and submit
improvements...   oh wait.  ;)



>
> I'd like to make a parser generator in Gambas, where you define the
> syntax highlighting in a declarative way, and it compiles it into
> highlighting code.
>
> Writing highlighters would be simpler then.
>

Ooh yes please, for us to be able to easier add syntax highlighting would
be brilliant.
pluma has tons to choose from.
someone could maybe do a better job than me ?  :)  i don't mind :)

we could stick something on the wiki maybe, like a collection of easily
addable highlighters to download or code to copy/paste?

Respects
BruceS
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