On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson < devyncjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
Geany Dev Team:
Has anyone performed benchmarks to see how significant the difference between current Geany and Geany with all of the Scintilla lexers added to Geany? I ask this because I would like Geany to have highlighting for Prolog (Scintilla has the "Visual Prolog" lexer). However, I understand that performance key characteristic of Geany.
Hi Devyn,
adding a new filetype and Scintilla lexer doesn't have any impact on performance - it just makes the binary a bit larger but it's not a big problem. Missing support for some languages basically means that nobody really cared about adding them. Most probably the core Geany developers don't use Prolog and it's always best when the person who adds support for a new language knows the language at least a bit to be able to check if all the config options are set correctly and if everything works as expected.
If you plan adding support for Prolog, you may have a look at the HACKING file in Geany root directory for some hints. It's also helpful to check some commit in Geany's git history which adds support for some other language to see what needs to be changed.
Cheers,
Jiri