[Geany-Users] Using Geany for Zephir sources

Thu May 15 15:17:22 UTC 2014

Well, thanks for your time. I may have look one day. Meanwhile, the 
trick is to start with a commented PHP opening tag like this :
// <?php

Cheers!

Stephane

Le 15/05/2014 15:13, Lex Trotman a écrit :
> On 15 May 2014 22:00, Stéphane Mourey
> <stephane.mourey at impossible-exil.info> wrote:
>> Thank you, Lex, for your useful explanation.
>>
>> So, now, I think that I do not need to make a new parser for Zephir, as the
>> PHP one works to locate Zephir symbols, at least for classes and methods
>> which are the most useful symbols for me. Some work is certainly required
>> for properties and variables, but I can live without for a while.
> I presume you mean it works if you start the file with <?.
>
>> So setting Zephir files to the PHP type make the trick for symbols locating,
>> but what about highlighting? Can I set Geany to use the PHP parser but not
>> expect the PHP opening tag ?
> My quick look shows it is hard coded in the PHP parser to expect <?php
> or <? so no it can't be set.  This makes sense as the PHP language
> specifies that its parser only looks at code inside these tags.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stéphane
>>
>> Le 15/05/2014 13:09, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>>
>> On 15 May 2014 19:50, Stéphane Mourey
>> <stephane.mourey at impossible-exil.info> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all for your help!
>> I got it! I know what puts the mess in the symbols : it's the Return Type
>> Hint (http://zephir-lang.com/oop.html#return-type-hints).
>> So if you change the Hello World example this way :
>>
>> namespace Test;
>>
>> class Hello
>> {
>>      /**
>>       * This is a sample method
>>       */
>>      public function returnHello() -> string
>>      {
>>          return "Hello World!";
>>      }
>> }
>>
>> Highlighting is correct but the symbols do not appears correctly when
>> setting the document type to C#.
>>
>> What can I do ?
>>
>> To explain a little.
>>
>> Highlighting is purely based on lexical analysis, that is, just the
>> tokens in the language, and there is a remarkable similarity between
>> languages. So its easy to get a lexer from another language to work
>> (albeit with a different list of keywords).  This is done so that
>> highlighting will work as you type, even if the file does not yet
>> represent a legal program in the language you are writing it in.
>>
>> But locating symbols requires the file to be actually parsed, that is
>> the language syntax must match the syntax that the parser is looking
>> for.  If the syntax is wrong it will not parse correctly.  So if
>> zephyr declaration syntax does not match some other language, then no
>> existing parser is going to understand it.
>>
>> The parsers are an adaptation of those from the ctags project
>> (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) and are written in C.  You would have
>> to make a zephyr specific parser, possibly by modifying an existing
>> parser.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 15/05/2014 10:14, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>>
>> On 15 May 2014 17:07, Stéphane Mourey
>> <stephane.mourey at impossible-exil.info> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm new a the list, so just a few word to introduce myself : I am mostly a
>> PHP developer and I often write for the french magazine "GNU/Linux Magazine
>> France". I'm using Geany on a daily basis for a long time, and enjoy it more
>> than any other IDE.
>>
>> As a PHP developper, I recently discover a new programming language,
>> dedicated to native PHP extensions. Its name is Zephir, you could learn more
>> here : http://zephir-lang.com. Its philosophy is to associate the PHP syntax
>> style with the efficiency of C to enable long-time PHP developer to run
>> easily their own extensions as fast as C ones and to code them as quickly as
>> PHP scripts.
>>
>> So I adopted Zephir, and will certainly use it on a daily basis, as Geany.
>> So I naturally tried to code Zephir sources with Geany and to make my own
>> filestype.Zephir.conf. You can see the current state of this work here :
>> https://github.com/taophp/zephir-geany-fileconf
>>
>> The fact is that if I set the Zephir file as a PHP file using the menu
>> Document->Set filetype (I suppose, my geany front end is in French), the
>> symbols tabs detects all my classes, functions, properties, and all
>> perfectly, but in the editing area, there is no syntax highlighting until I
>> add the opening PHP tag "<?php" - but the Zephir compiler will not accept
>> it. My first attempt to solve this issue was to copy the filetypes.php in a
>> filetypes.Zephir.conf, and then tried to modify it to avoid the need of the
>> opening PHP tag. My second attempt was to find another filetypes.* that fit
>> more my needs. My choice was filetypes.cs, and this was the base of my
>> project on Gitbub. Now syntax highlighting is correct, but the symbols tab
>> does not work...
>>
>> Strange, if I take the "hello world" example from the zephir-lang docs
>> and simply set filetype C# both highlighting and symbols work.  So
>> setting both lexer_filetype and tag_parser to C# in the custom
>> filetype file should work.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>
>> Could anyone could tell me how to deal with this issue ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stéphane Mourey
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