Re: Help needed with QScintilla lexer keywords

[John W. Eaton]

On 05/12/2013 04:40 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:31 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     We currently have a big hard-coded list of "keywords" (actually
>     mostly function names) in libgui/src/resource-manager.cc that are
>     used by the GUI editor for syntax highlighting.  Instead of the
>     static list, I'd like to get the list of keywords from Octave.  That
>     part is easy, but when I started looking at how this list is used, I
>     noticed that the QsciLexer keywords function can have more than one
>     class of keywords. What do the class IDs correspond to?  What should
>     be in set 1, 2, 3, etc.?
>
>
> I think it's up to the person writing the lexer to define what the
> available sets correspond to. The comments in this link [1] indicates
> this is primarily intended to support languages embedded into other
> languages (first example that comes to my mind is HTML/PHP).

OK, so we are not attempting to provide different highlighting for 
function names and keywords (if, for, etc.)?

If we return the list of all functions and keywords in a single list of 
keywords for the editor, then we'll be highlighting nearly everything on 
the screen in the same way.  Is that really what people want or expect?

jwe