baconeditor-qt

baconeditor-qt

Source code

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bacon-qt5/files/baconeditor-qt/baconeditor-qt-1.1.tar.gz/download

This editor uses libkf5syntaxhighlighting

that is the official lib for syntax highlighting Kate, Kwrite, Kdevelop ,qtcreator and many more

I wanted this only for Qt apps highlighting Bacon's keywords when I started

it was more complex then I imagined because it is done in two levels

first level the keywords for your language second level we need to base

off the compiled in themes then generate a new theme by importing it into

a GUI tool that allows you to make a custom theme I haven't figured out how to

import a custom theme manually into my code yet but working on it

However it is very easy to do in Kate with their GUI theme tool

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1.) Some special notes : when you open any file it gets copied automatically for you

and renamed to /tmp/test.bac it is a safety and allows you to compile the code

using the green circle icon no messy files all is done in / tmp

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2.) when you launch the app the first time a file is automatically generated

called /tmp/test.bac and it gets opened and is blank you write some code

and save "this simulates a scratch pad idea " save any file you want to compile

called /tmp/test.bac now you can compile and run using the green circle icon

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3.) if you don't plan to compile the code and use this as a normal editor

you can save as any name you prefer

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4.) we didn't have anything for Qt yet and for fun and a personal interest how we could add syntax highlighting for bacon this came to be and we get bacon syntax-highlighting in many official KDE apps as a secondary effect of this journey