Perl support

Perl support

[Matti Koskimies]

Hello,

I would like to know if you're planning to add Perl support for Source
Navigator, and if so, when the feature will be available? I believe this
would be immensely useful as such a large number of projects especially on
Linux are coded with Perl.

Regards,

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Matti Koskimies                                  Fishpool Creations Ltd
msk@fishpool.fi                                  Innopoli
+358-400-438055                                  Tekniikantie 12
http://msk.nocrew.org                            02150 Espoo
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Re: Perl support

[Ian Roxborough]

Hi,

I would like to see Perl support for SN, but currently nobody is
working on adding it.  I will be added if somebody donates a 
Perl parser (and adds perl syntax highlighting as well) OR if
somebody contacts Red Hat to add Perl support.  If anybody is
willing to donate time/etc to adding perl support we will
provide as much help as we can.

Ian.

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:25:07 Matti Koskimies wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to know if you're planning to add Perl support for Source
> Navigator, and if so, when the feature will be available? I believe this
> would be immensely useful as such a large number of projects especially on
> Linux are coded with Perl.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> ------
> Matti Koskimies                                  Fishpool Creations Ltd
> msk@fishpool.fi                                  Innopoli
> +358-400-438055                                  Tekniikantie 12
> http://msk.nocrew.org                            02150 Espoo
> matti/irc.esper.net                              Finland
> 
> 

Re: Perl support

[Thomas Heller]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to see Perl support for SN, but currently nobody is
> working on adding it.  I will be added if somebody donates a 
> Perl parser (and adds perl syntax highlighting as well) OR if
> somebody contacts Red Hat to add Perl support.  If anybody is
> willing to donate time/etc to adding perl support we will
> provide as much help as we can.
> 

Ian,

I'm currently working on a Python parser for SN.
Things are a little complicated because I am on Win32 and not on
*nix, also I want to use MSVC instead of gcc.
But I make progress.

How can I add syntax highlighting for a language?

Thomas

Re: Perl support

[Ben Elliston]

   I'm currently working on a Python parser for SN. Things are a little
   complicated because I am on Win32 and not on *nix, also I want to use
   MSVC instead of gcc. But I make progress.
   
   How can I add syntax highlighting for a language?

It needs some improvement, but in essence, you need to write a scanner using
something like Flex.  See the .l files in the source tree.  Rather than
scanning a file (or stdin), these scanners scan memory allocated by the
editor when a source file is loaded in.

Ben

Re: Perl support

[Ben Elliston]

Hi Thomas,

   I'm currently working on a Python parser for SN.

That's great!

   Things are a little complicated because I am on Win32 and not on
   *nix, also I want to use MSVC instead of gcc.

Why not just model it on the existing parser Makefile.am's?  Then it will
work for everybody, using automake and autoconf.

Ben