[Geany-Devel] RFC: Merge C and C++ Filetypes (no troll)
Thomas Martitz
kugel at xxxxx
Thu Jan 7 22:40:16 UTC 2016
Am 07.01.2016 um 23:00 schrieb Jiří Techet:
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> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org
> <mailto:kugel at rockbox.org>> wrote:
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> Am 06.01.2016 um 21:12 schrieb Jiří Techet:
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> 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.
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> +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.
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> -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.
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> 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.
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> I created (a highly sophisticated) pull request here:
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> https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/857
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> Power users can always add *.h back to C types but I think having it
> in C++ is a better default.
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Yes you're only changing the default. I just stated my opionion and
won't try to block the change. Go a head if you prefer.
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