[Geany-Users] Looking to contribute

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Mon Dec 14 01:43:49 UTC 2015


On 2015-12-13 4:18 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 12/13/2015 04:02 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>
>>> "where to start" is a bit vague, but reading the source code is a pretty
>>> good starting point[0]:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/ci/default/tree/lexers/LexBash.cxx
>>>
>>>
>>
>> And of course the documentation, which among other useful details,
>> contains some easy to miss links at the top which explain how lexers
>> work:
>>
>> http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html
>>
>> I found the "Beginner's Guide to lexing and folding" one quite good.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matthew Brush
>
> Ok, noted and filed.  Too bad about the C++ tho.  I'm proficient in C
> but I rather loathe C++.  But I did speak it at one time and we can't
> stop 'progress' ....
>

If it helps, it's not very "C++-ish", it's more like "C With Classes".

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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