[Geany-devel] coffeescript lexer

[Matthew Brush]

On 11/10/2011 03:23 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM,<joshua.rh at comcast.net>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>       I've added a feature request to add a coffeescript lexer to scintilla
>> here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3436256&group_id=2439&atid=352439 and
>> will hopefully start on it when the semester's over (December).  Also, does
>> anyone know:
>>
>> 1) If the lexer needs to be written in c++ (will the lua one Matthew found
>> work?)
>> 2) if it's a bad idea to test this in geany? (I intentionally added the
>> request to scintilla, and can work on it in scite if that's a better idea)
>> 3) if this will cover everything needed for coffeescript in geany once it's
>> done (we'll still need a filetypes.coffee, right? which is just a .conf file
>> that contains the keywords, comment markers, and a few other small things,
>> correct?)
>>
>> Thanks for any info, and I hope to work on this soon!
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> taking your points in turn.
>
> -1) re the post on Scintilla.  Scintilla and Scite already support the
> scintillua parser you referenced, nothing to do there, move along
> please :)
>
> 0) but Geany does not support scintillua or any other external lexer.
> I had a quick look once but decided it was "too hard" (tm)
>
> 1) no, see -1)
>
> 2) the thing that needs adding to Geany is external lexer support,
> there is nothing to do in scintilla/scite since they already have it.
>
> 3) some mappings are needed inside Geany, see Matthew's recent patch
> for objective C as an example.
>

3b) Ctags/TagManager support if you want symbols in the tree, 
auto-complete and such.  We use Scintilla lexers only for 
styling/colouring and separate Ctags lexers for tag management stuff.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush