[Padre-dev] Syntax highlighting

[Leandro Hermida]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ahmad Zawawi <ahmad.zawawi at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > 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
> >
> > You're right, I didn't notice this. Looks like a bug.
> > However the colors themselves did change so I think the highlighter
> > selection itself did change, only the status line was not updated.
> >
>
> If you change Perl syntax highlighters from Scintilla to PPI
> highlighters, the status bar will change when you actually start
> editing the file (i.e. it is bug). I tested this on Win XP. syntax
> highlighters have also a size limit after which the default scintilla
> highlighter will always be used for speed considerations. Please take
> a look at Padre::Document::Perl, the hardcoded limit is 4000
> characters (which is very low).
>

Yes this not reasonable.  I don't know how many of you agree, but to me
top-notch syntax highlighting is such a crucial part of any IDE or text
editor and the default highlighter should be as least as good and fast as
for example the one in NEdit.  If pure Perl is too slow to do any of this
then this could be a huge handicap.  Is it possible to build with XS the
parts that need to be faster?
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