Scintilla algorithm

[Andy]

Is anywhere described Scintilla algorithm? How it does syntax highlighting and folding? 

What source files of Scintilla are most important ?

[KHMan]

On 6/16/2016 3:31 AM, Andy wrote:
> Is anywhere described Scintilla algorithm? How it does syntax
> highlighting and folding?

Look under scintilla/lexers first. Study some smaller lexers first
before trying to tackle the big files. Also scintilla/lexlib
supports the lexers. But the actual running of things is mostly in
scintilla/src and the platform-specific files.

> What source files of Scintilla are most important ?

Depends on your objective(s). For example, I have contributed to
lexers but my grasp of the code in scintilla/src is pretty weak.
So it is possible to hack the code without knowing all of it...

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[johnsonj]

2016년 6월 16일 목요일 오전 4시 31분 31초 UTC+9, Andy 님의 말:

Is anywhere described Scintilla algorithm? How it does syntax highlighting and folding? 

What source files of Scintilla are most important ?

May Scintilla-var%27aq-Tutorial help you.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/scintilla-interest/folding/scintilla-interest/zzBltE93d8o/NcO8qLUO7E0J

[Neil Hodgson]

Andy:

Is anywhere described Scintilla algorithm? How it does syntax highlighting and folding? 

What source files of Scintilla are most important ?

   Start with http://www.scintilla.org/Design.html

    The most important piece is the gap buffer data structure widely used in text editors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_buffer

    Neil