[Padre-dev] Syntax highlighting

[Leandro Hermida]

Hi Offer,
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Offer Kaye <offer.kaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Leandro Hermida wrote:
> > For such an
> > old text editor that hasn't been really developed further since 2004, how
> > did NEdit get it so right?
> >
>
> Hi Leandro,
> I've been using NEdit as my primary editor for several years and I'm a
> *huge* fan of it as well, but to call the default Perl syntax
> highlighting in NEdit good is to stretch the definition of the word.
> Sure for very simple things it is ok, but once you write a
> "here-document" operator, or a match without the leading "m" or a
> substitution with non-slack delimiters, e.g. s#RE#text#, NEdit's
> highlighter goes to pieces. Or maybe you use non-default highlighting
> rules, if so I'd love to try them out :)


You are right yes this is true when using non-standard Perl syntax, my point
I guess was that other text editors or IDEs they don't even get the simple
default stuff right, the syntax highlighting tends to be so simplistic and
everything looks the same, and for NEdit it doesn't, it does a really good
and granular job with most stuff.


> It is prettier by far IMHO than Padre's current one(*) but at least
> Padre's can get better since it has the option of using PPI (in
> Windows, go to Edit->Preferences->Files and Colors and choose one of
> the two PPI options instead of the default Scintilla based one). I
> don't believe you can fault PPI for accuracy and I'm sure over time
> this area will get the love it deserves and developers will use PPI's
> strength to provide better syntax highlighting for Padre.
> In contrast as you pointed out yourself, NEdit development is pretty
> much frozen..
>
How do I get this to turn on?  I keep selecting PPI in my preferences but
then when I open a file it always shows in the bottom corner Scintilla?  I
am using the latest Padre 0.56


> > The highlighter work very fast even with large files
>
> For some definition of large... ever try to open a 300MB Verilog
> netlist with Syntax highlighting enabled? Good luck... I only use
> "nedit -lm Plain" for large files. In any case it is impossible IMO to
> compare Padre to NEdit in terms of speed, since NEdit is C-based while
> Padre is written in Perl. So yes I would expect NEdit to have an edge
> w/regards to speed...
>
> (*) At least for Padre on Windows. I have no idea what the Linux
> situation is as I don't have access to a modern Linux box where Padre
> can be installed. Maybe there the syntax-highlighting is better.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Offer Kaye
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