[Geany-Devel] Scintillua again.

[Lex Trotman]

On 21 October 2016 at 01:32,  <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I can tell from reading some old posts and requests, Geany does not
> support Scintillua.
>
> I am neither a C nor C++ programmer (although I am making some feeble efforts
> at trying to write a lexer for Scintilla / Geany for a variation  on the TWiki
> markup language).
>
> So, from an ignorant point of view, because Scintillua is a variant of
> Scintilla, I would think (or hope ;-) that it should be fairly easy to use
> Scintillua in place of Scintilla in Geany.

The documentation for Scintillua says "The environments of
Scintilla-based applications vary greatly, but as long as external
lexers are supported, Scintillua can be dropped into any existing
installation."

Geany does not support external lexers, so it can't use Scintillua.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Has anyone dug into this at all?
>
> I ask because it looks like it would be a whole lot easier to write my lexer
> in Scintillua than in C/C++ (and don't even think about me trying to integrate
> Scintillua into Geany unless it would be some very simple matter of changing
> sort of a dependency or something (like saying "include Scintillua" instead of
> saying "include Scintilla" if that is how Scintilla gets "attached" to
> Geany)).
>
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