[Geany] Syntax highlighting of keywords with spaces

[Lex Trotman]

Hi,

Geany uses the Scintilla editing component which provides the lexers
that parse the source for colourising.

AFAICT the Perl lexer does nothing but simple word comparison for
keywords (see LexPerl.cxx in the src/scintilla directory of Geany).

So someone would have to modify the Perl lexer to use regular
expressions instead.

Also Geany tries to use scintilla without any modifications so it is
preferable if this is added to the upstream scintilla first.

Cheers
Lex

2009/9/25 Michele Beltrame <mb at cattlegrid.info>:
> Hello!
>
> I'm extending my filetypes.perl to support Moose and MooseX::Declare
> keywords.
>
> Some of them, however, are not a single word but two. For example:
>
> is mutable
> is dirty
>
> I would prefer to to add "is", "mutable" and "dirty" as primary keywords, as
> they're meaningless alone. Is it possible to have something regex-base such
> as:
>
> /is\s+mutable/
>
> parsed to search for keywords?
>
> Thanks,
> Michele.
>
> BTW: Geany is great!
>
> --
> Michele Beltrame
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