#1023 Improvements to LexBasic for the FreeBASIC language

[Erik]

Scintilla is used by Geany as the backend for syntax processing. To support multiline comments in the FreeBASIC programming language TJF from the FreeBASIC forums made some changes to the source of Geany AND Scintilla (in the Geany source tree). The changes are mainly in the LexBasic.cxx file. Geany suggests to get the changes upstream in Scintilla first. So I applied his changes to the mercurial tree and made a patch.

Thanks in advance.

[Neil Hodgson]

This appears to be based on a release from a couple of years ago rather than current Scintilla. Patches should be for current Scintilla unless there are particular reasons for dropping those changes. Specifically missing
https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/ci/8156d1e9e74b085cb2070573fa4846be28e0e8c0/#diff-1
https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/code/ci/be084c2852e09e9491ad14f33bc0d15edd68d92b/#diff-5

Indentation whitespace is different to surrounding code (tabs) making it appear indented strangely.

Changes do not need to be marked when delivering a patch so drop the // TJF start/end.

The comments haven't been updated for the new IsLetter bit mask.

Changes are made to the blitzbasic and purebasic modes. For example Blitz Basic dot labels are no longer recognized.
http://www.blitzbasic.com/bpdocs/command.php?name=Goto&ref=2d_cat

[TJF]

Thanks Neil,

for checking the ticket that fast.

And sorry, I'm not keen on using version control systems, so I'm not able to generate a patch file jet.

Instead I attach a new version of the complete file 'scintilla/lexers/LexBasic.cxx'. It's

• based on the current source
• indentation with tabs only
• no TJF comments
• updated comment 'IsLetter' bit mask
• BlitzBasic dot labels recognized (but not for FB)

and additional

• improved highlighting (doc keywords in single line comments)

Hope you can handle the source file as good as a patch.

Thanks in advance.

[Neil Hodgson]

I'll look at this after 3.3.6 is released.

[Neil Hodgson]

Committed as [3508c0].

[Erik]

Thanks Neil and TJF.