QtCreator syntax highlighting

[Kenton Varda]

I recently switched from Eclipse to QtCreator and I'm really, really happy with the switch.  I strongly believe that statically-typed languages are meant to be written in editors that actually parse and index your code -- I find my productivity hugely enhanced by simple things like "jump to definition" and auto-complete -- but as a Linux user I can't use Visual Studio nor XCode, and Eclipse is a huge bloated mess.  QtCreator is relatively lightweight yet supports the C++ indexing features I need.  Despite being part of Qt, it actually works great for general-purpose C++ programming.

Anyway, I wrote a .capnp syntax highlighting definition:

https://github.com/kentonv/capnproto/blob/master/highlighting/qtcreator/capnp.xml

This produces similar highlighting to what you see on the Cap'n Proto web site.  My approach to capnp highlighting is a little different from your typical programming language, in that I highlight things like "type expression" and "value expression" rather than "string" or "number".  For declarative schemas, I find this more useful.

I also wrote an Ekam plugin.  Not sure if anyone other than me has managed to get Ekam running, but if so, here you are.  :)

https://code.google.com/p/kentons-code/source/browse/#hg%2Fqtcreator

Both of these will probably get some tweaks as I start using them more heavily in the near future.

-Kenton

[Andreas Stenius]

Nice.

My primary use case for ecapnp will be to talk to a Qt application/server (http://github.com/kaos/QtErl).

So now I know where I'll edit my schemas.. thank you :)

2013/12/23 Kenton Varda <temp...@gmail.com>

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