[Geany-devel] Scintilla Lua lexers for syntax highlighting

[Jason Oster]

On 10/22/2010 06:00 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> Hi list,
> A while ago Lex and I discussed improving custom filetypes, and the
> most promising thing was using Lua lexers.
>

[snip]

> Found the original project that does this (the next version of
> SciTE will have support for this):
> http://code.google.com/p/scintillua/
> http://code.google.com/p/scintillua/wiki/LexerList
>
> Haven't looked at it really but it mentions universal color schemes, so
> I'll investigate sometime - this could be useful for adding named
> styles.
>
> Nick

Hi Nick,

I quickly skimmed over the documentation you linked, and it seems like 
it could be a great addition to Geany.  I don't know any Lua (though I'm 
aware it's a popular scripting language), but it looks simple enough.  I 
can imagine the potential usefulness in a few cases:

1) Rapidly prototyping new language lexers.
2) Extending currently-available native lexers(?)  Example: making the 
JavaScript lexer (Actually, it's the C++ lexer!) aware of E4X [1] 
language features.  Namely, the addition of XML as a first-class data 
type [2].

I'm not wuite sure about extending the native lexers, but that would be 
really cool!  ;)

[1] ECMAScript for XML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4X
[2] 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=352439&aid=3005577&group_id=2439
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