Re: [Beaver-devel] Syhi User Interface

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> 1)
> I suggest we create a new tab in the Prefs called "File Types".
> We can then present the various file types in a list like this
>
> Extension(s) | Highlighter | Compile Command
> -------------------------------------------------
> C,cpp,cxx    | "C++"       | g++ -fsyntax-only %s
> ...          | ...         | ...
>
> ..and, of course, the necessary widgets to add, modify and delete
> entries.

We wouldn't show the extensions here.  GtkSourceView has an idea of the 
extensions if we really want them.  I don't know how to get them, but I 
think there is some interface.  :)  Plus, beaver already has an 
interface for (automatically at first) choosing what language we are using.

But yeah, I agree with the basic idea.  The only problem I see is what 
if users want to do several commands (but not necessarily at the same 
time).  I guess we can add a general command button feature later if we 
need.


> 2)
> Have you seen Vim's language menu? A tree structure might be helpful
> sometimes. Think of
>
> Assembly Language
>   -> i386
>      -> Intel Syntax
>      -> AT&T Syntax
>   -> Sparc
>
> .
>
>
> 3)
> Does GtkSourceView already support nested languages? If not so, have you
> any idea on how to accomplish this?

I think the language file format has a value called Type or something, 
that says what kind of 'language' it was describing.  It has values like 
Source or Other.  I don't think it has any more granularity than that. 
Though, that's a start.

We could either hard code in our heirarchy, or we could try and talk to 
the gtksourceview guys to make some more explicit Type values like 
Assembly, Interpreted, or whatever.  Also, to support your even further 
idea of sublanguages, we could provide patches to support .lang file 
inheritance.  So, there could be a base i386 lang file with anything 
that is common across all assembly languages (probably everything but 
keywords), and then the assembly_intel.lang file can say what is special 
about intel.

-mt

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