Re: [Beaver-devel] Syntax Highlighting

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> > So, I have a record of every ascii character's keyword 
> > status -- whether it appears in a keyword, whether it starts a keyword, 
> > or whether it ends a keyword.  I go backward from start iter to find 
> > first character that isn't in a keyword or the first delimiter.  The 
> > same for end iter, except I always go at least one forward, I think.
>
> Seems expensive.

Not really.  The lookups are cheap (in a 256-size array), and it only 
usually expands until a whitespace.


> > If the character starts a 'special string' like a string or char 
> > marker, a line comment starter, or a block comment start or end, it 
> > creates a GtkTextMark and adds it to a list for the buffer.
>
> I suppose we could do brace matching with this...?

Yeah, I anticipated doing something similar.  Probably with its own 
GtkTextMark stack, but yeah.


> > That's the basic idea.  Want any more info?
>
> Kind of. Are you going to put that syntax highlighting stuff
> into a separate file?

Oh, I didn't know I was in charge of that.  :)  Sure, I can do that 
sometime.  But, today isn't a good day for it -- I can get to it tomorrow.

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