Hi Lex,
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
let me try an example, of a simple piece of Perl, with the folds shown as best I can in plain text
+- if( $a<10 ){ | print $i -- }
+- sub aaa { | return 1 -- }
Then you fold up the sub aaa.
Now deciding to add some text to the print type a quote on that line, the sub stays rolled up but notice that it changes colour to indicate its part of the string and the fold indicators disappear, as they should, it is parsed as part of a string. So there is no fold point here to store the information that this is folded.
On my computer it doesn't stay rolled up. But no matter - we agree that in the end the sub is unfolded.
And folds in PHP and Ruby behave the same as Perl, they unfold, in fact using the same scenario as above they unfold immediately you type the opening quote, the others I don't know enough to test.
So that's 4 to 6 languages that have this problem.
Geany doesn't actually control the parsing, its done by Scintilla the editing component it uses. So Geany doesn't actually know that there is an unclosed string in the file, and so wouldn't be able to use this approach as far as I can see.
Not much chance of it getting fixed then?
Daniel.