Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Parser generator to use in a jEdit plugin

[Shlomy R. <sre...@gm...>]

Lucas,

Aside from trying to use a grammar for the purpose of indentation and
syntax highlighting - can you say what is missing in the current mode
language to fully support the languages you use?

Shlomy

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Shlomy Reinstein <sre...@gm...> wrote:
>> In the meantime, is there is a way to write a mode purely in java,
>> without going through the compilation machinery of a mode file, so that
>> I might have a look at writing my own special syntax highlighter and
>> indentation? I guess I'm wondering what events the syntax highlighter
>> has to respond to, and similarly for indentation, and what functions I
>> might be able to re-use to simply tell jedit what colour to use for what
>> chunks of text...
>>
>> as I write this, I'm starting to think this might be a lot of work...
>>
>> any suggestions and comments would be very welcome,
>>
>> best,
>> lucas
>>
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>
> You can start by reading the documentation of edit modes. That's what
> a mode file defines, and instead of writing a mode file you can set
> the objects at run-time. It's probably not what you want, anyway,
> because it's just filling in the mode file properties dynamically in
> java.
>
> To apply the mode rules, see the TokenMarker class. It has a method
> for marking tokens in a line. This is the starting point, but as you
> think, it's an awful lot of work.
>
> ... and thanks for mentioning the parser you used. I recall that
> looking for a C++ parser, I encountered something named "The Harmonia
> project", which is hosted by a university, and as far as I understand
> is a self-adjustable parser, that can listen to changes anywhere in
> the parsed text and do the minimal things to adapt the parse tree and
> associated actions. But I never went into detail to understand how it
> works.
>