[Geany-devel] SCSS (Sassy CSS) lexer support

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Tue Jan 17 20:36:05 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 17/01/2012 09:59, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> Geany prefers to use an unmodified Scintilla from that project.
>> Upgrading Scintilla is not a minor task involving as it does checking
>> and verification that all Geany settings in all filetypes map
>> correctly to all Scintilla styles and that all changes have been
>> handled correctly. Therefore Geany does not update Scintilla very
>> often, rather when there are significant fixes in Scintilla and/or
>> significant new features.
>
>
> I think if all is needed is to copy SciLexer.h and the new lexer file, plus
> minor makefile changes, then a patch should be acceptable without upgrading
> Scintilla. We've done this in the past.

Hi Nick,

How does this work without a filetype to support the new lexer?  And
don't we need additions to sciwrappers to map the filetype keys to
scintilla style enums?

Cheers
Lex

>
> I don't know anything about SCSS however, so can't decide whether Geany
> should support it or not.
>
> Regards,
> Nick
>
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