[Bf-committers] Syntax Highlighting & Alternate Languages

[François T.]

I have been using Notepad++ a lot in my previous company, and we were using
LUA with custom function, and it was really easy to add as well. Our program
at compile time was generating the needed XML, and put it in the notepad++
folder. It was very handy indeed.
I think notepad++ is based on scintilla as well !!!

And actually I wonder if Blender couldn't reload external file automatically
each time it as been saved on the harddrive, so we could use it external
editor ? Even sending a hint to Blender via python maybe to run the script ?


cheers,

F.


2011/7/27 Tom Edwards <contact at steamreview.org>

> There's no reason to keep the keywords list as a Python var. Who needs
> constant access to it? It can be converted to a native C
> vector/array/whatever immediately. Any highlighting extension that isn't
> scriptable isn't worth doing IMO.
>
> On 27/07/2011 9:25, Benjamin Tolputt wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that putting the parsing code into the Python layer
> > would slow the syntax highlighting code quite dramatically and, as
> > such, is not likely to get the core team approval (let alone be
> > appreciated by the users). I like the idea of that kind of
> > flexibility, but the code is currently quite low level & speedy
> > (integer comparisons from a char array). The speed hit to jump up to
> > Python (with the string passing, Python string comparisons, and return
> > path) is most likely going to rule this out almost completely. That
> > said, in terms of the priority request, I'm willing to do the
> > low-level code stuff myself. This isn't a request for other developers
> > to code something for me, it is a request to pre-check whether it is
> > worth putting the code together myself. It is contained in perhaps two
> > files, there are no changes to the API required, and it is very close
> > to a copy/paste job with alternate means of detecting comments,
> > strings, and special strings. The changes are small, there is no
> > performance penalty, and the upside is (for people like myself) quite
> > high. If I cannot get approval for this - I don't think integrating
> > Python would be worth mentioning ;)
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