[Geany-Devel] RFC: Merge C and C++ Filetypes (no troll)

[Jiří Techet]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org> wrote:

> Am 06.01.2016 um 21:12 schrieb Jiří Techet:
>
>>
>>
>>     It's indeed at least interesting to consider, because at least for .h
>>     headers there really is some mixed stuff all over the place -- even,
>>     simply look in Scintilla's source tree.
>>
>>
>> +1 for having the headers parsed/lexed by the C++ parser (with sources it
>> may be a bit dangerous and typically the sources have the right C++
>> extension).
>>
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>>
> Not replying to Jiří specifically.
>
> -1. .h is legitimately a C, it's just that many people get it wrong. And I
> don't want C++ keywords highlighted in C headers while they are not
> highlighted it C source files. This is just confusing.
>

I agree with Matthew here - I think the "damage" caused by parsing C
headers with the C++ parser/lexer is much smaller than vice versa. Actually
a few months back a user of my ProjectOrganizer plugin wrote me just
because of that - he had a C++ project with "h" headers and was surprised
that tag generation didn't work for him.

I created (a highly sophisticated) pull request here:

https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/857

Power users can always add *.h back to C types but I think having it in C++
is a better default.

Cheers,

Jiri
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