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Re: Syntax coloring/highlighting in gnu-readline
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solros9 |
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Re: Syntax coloring/highlighting in gnu-readline |
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Wed, 5 Mar 2014 00:41:48 -0800 (PST) |
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On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:06:57 PM UTC+1, Chet Ramey wrote:
> I have not done any work in this area, and have no immediate plans to. The
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> readline internals do not lend themselves to this very well: the line
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> buffer management and display engines assume that every character in the
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> line buffer contributes to the screen display and should be displayed. You
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> would need an auxiliary data structure to save and manipulate this
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> information.
Okay, thanks. Do you have any hints on where to start if I want to implement
this?
Silke