[Geany-devel] Patch for JavaScript keywords

[Jason Oster]

Geany is missing some of the newer language features available to 
JavaScript since about version 1.6.  This includes 'get', 'set', and 
'yield' [1].

There's also a large gap between the keywords available to JavaScript 
embedded in HTML/PHP (filetypes.xml) and JavaScript on its own 
(filetypes.javascript); filetypes.xml contains a large number of 
keywords, many of which are not just language features, but also 
objects, and their properties and methods.  This just seems incorrect, 
to me.  And I'll admit, the separation between embedded and standalone 
JavaScript is something of a design flaw in Scintilla.  Some might say 
it's a "feature".

I'll just attach a patch that contains all of the additions I've 
collected over a short (~20 minute) time frame.  My primary source is 
Mozilla Documentation Network, although the ECMA standards are more 
authoritative.  (Not that I even want to make an attempt to read it...)

The patch only touches filetypes.javascript, I think filetypes.xml needs 
a thorough overlooking to determine what needs to go.  I've stuck with 
keywords listed in [1] and [2] for what's really necessary to define in 
filetypes.javascript.

I tried to keep the separation between primary and secondary keywords 
simple: 'primary' keywords are statements, operators, types, values, and 
other language constructs. 'secondary' keywords are functions, objects, 
properties, methods, etc.  Note that I have not included functions like 
alert(), confirm(), prompt(), ... in the secondary keywords, because 
those are methods of the global window object, and are not a core 
function in JavaScript itself.

Finally, the 'secondary' keywords in filetypes.javascript are unused. 
This patch fixes it.


[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Operators
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects
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