Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Features/SyntaxHighlighting

Timestamp:

03/31/11 19:29:33 (2 years ago)

Author:

szabgab

Comment:

text from Padre.pm

Features/SyntaxHighlighting

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-== Description ==
+== Syntax highlighting or syntax coloring ==
 
 In 0.84 you could switch between styles in '''View -> Styles -> '''
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 You can find out where is the Padre configuration directory on your computer by looking at '''Help -> About -> System Info -> Config'''
 
+=head2 Syntax highlighting
+
+Padre is using L<Wx> (aka wxPerl), wxWidgets for GUI and Scintilla for the editor.
+Scintilla provides very good syntax highlighting for many languages but Padre is still
+bound by the version of Scintilla included.
+
+The F<share/styles/default.yml> file is the mapping between the Scintilla defined
+constants for various syntactical elements of each language and the C<RGB> values
+of the color to be used to highlight them.
+
+== Adding new syntax highlighting ==
+
+TO DO does this stuff below really belong here?
+
+Need to define constants in ''Padre::Util'' to be in the ''Padre::Constant'' namespace.
+
+Need to add the color mapping to ''share/styles/default.yml''
+
+Need to implement the ''Padre::Document::Language'' class.
+
+Need to define the MIME type mapping in ''Padre::Document''
+
+For examples see ''Padre::Document::PASM'', ''Padre::Document::PIR'' and ''Padre::Document::Perl''.
 
 == Tickets ==