> > KDevelop 4 won't have a new editor. It is using
the KTextEditor
> > interfaces. Those interfaces allow KDevelop 4 to
choose to do its own
> > highlighting. The only way this could be re-used
for KWrite is for the
> > default KTextEditor implementation -- katepart --
to use kdevelop-pg
> > parsers for its highlighting. Who knows, perhaps
the Kate devels will
> > eventually do this, but the place to talk about
that is on kwrite-devel
> > as you yourself noted.
>
> True. Well... since obviously the decision is made, I
guess I'll wait
> and see. I still think it would be good if KATE's
highlighting was more
> language aware. It will be unfortunate if KATE winds up
implementing a
> different language-aware parsing engine that competes
with KDevelop's.
Kate already has it. It's implemented and I don't see it
being reworked any
time soon, unless a volunteer steps up to the plate. Calling
it a parsing
engine is buzzowordiness to me. It's a simple state machine
coupled to a
pattern matcher. Simplicity is the key word here.
It works pretty well considered how simple it is. It *is*
langauge aware. Have
you seen how many languages Kate's highlighter supports?
All of those
highlight fine in KDevelop as well. I have projects where
the test harness
has quite a bit of Octave and Common Lisp code in them, and
Kdevelop (via
KatePart (?)) hightlights those sources just fine. Have you
actually tried
what you're talking about?
The only thing, I gather, that KDevelop may potentially do
is override the
highlighting for files it knows how to highlight better than
what Kate does.
That more powerful highlighting functionality could be
potentially put into a
separate framework and made useable by Kate (and other
applications), but
again -- someone has to design it and code it first. I
suggest you give it a
try if you place such a high value on that feature (as you
claim).
Cheers, Kuba
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