[Geany-Users] Highlighting the lexical scope relative to the cursor position

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-12-23 12:52 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Am 23.12.2013 09:40, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>> On 13-12-21 11:30 AM, James Brierley wrote:
>>> On 20/12/13 01:03, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>>> This would probably make a good plugin.
>>>>
>>>> It should be possible, at least for languages who's lexer supports
>>>> folding and where folding is roughly equivalent to scope. Maybe
>>>> something like:
>>>>
>>>>    * find the current line's fold level
>>>>    * walk backwards each line until the fold level decreases
>>>>        - store that line's start position
>>>>    * walk forwards each line until the fold level decreases
>>>>        - store that line's end position
>>>>    * for each character/cell in between start and end, change style
>>>
>>> Indeed, most languages are folded with respect to scope. I hadn’t
>>> thought of that because I don’t tend to use folds much. This is more or
>>> less the kind of simple algorithm I had in mind, but more general than
>>> the concrete brackets/parens example. Good idea.
>>>
>>>> You could probably also do something similar but calculate the XY pixel
>>>> coordinates of a box around the scope and draw an overlay window at
>>>> that
>>>> box's size and position, allowing input to go through to the Scintilla
>>>> widget underneath (similar effect to XCode's scope highlighting). This
>>>> is kind of a similar effect as my "blackout" experiment except around
>>>> the scope box instead of the whole editor widget:
>>>>
>>>> http://codebrainz.ca/images/blackout-demo.png
>>>
>>> Interesting idea. I think I’d do it the simpler and less radical way
>>> though.
>>>
>>> Sounds like writing a little plugin is going on my to-do list then.
>>>
>>
>> Just for fun I made a little experiment doing what I was talking about:
>>
>> http://codebrainz.ca/screencasts/GeanyScopeHighlight.avi
>
>
> Nice! Could scope detection potentially also be used to add local
> variables to autocompletion?
>

I'm not sure but I doubt it, it's just using Scintilla fold points as 
described in the simple algorithm above (roughly).

> PS: The video didn't play in VLC (stuck on first frame) but did with
> ffplay.
>

Dunno, plays here locally in VLC. IIRC it's using H.264 in an AVI container.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush